Foreign Minister Israel Katz has announced the designation of UN Secretary-General António Guterres as "persona non grata," effectively barring the Portuguese diplomat from entering Israel.

The Foreign Ministry stated that this decision stems from Guterres’s response to last night’s missile attack by Iran, during which he notably failed to name Iran and did not clearly condemn its serious aggression.

According to Israel, Guterres's policies throughout the conflict have “provided support to terrorists, rapists, and murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, and now to the epicenter of global terror, Iran.”

In a statement, Katz says that "anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel, as nearly all the countries of the world have done, does not deserve to set foot on Israeli soil."

On October first, Iran launched approximately 200 ballistic missiles towards Israel. On the same evening in Tel Aviv, two armed individuals opened fire on peaceful citizens at a station. As a result of the terrorist attack, one citizen of Georgia was killed.