(SeaPRwire) –   Israeli officials issued sharp criticism of the United Nations after alleging that the global body had added Israeli entities to a sexual violence blacklist that also includes the terrorist organization Hamas.

“We have no more patience for this UN Secretary-General. Guterres has placed Israel on the exact same blacklist as Hamas, ISIS and the most depraved terrorist groups across the world. This is a moral disgrace that proves Guterres has lost all credibility entirely,” Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said in a statement shared with Digital.

A spokesperson for Danon confirmed that Israel is formally freezing all relations with the secretary-general’s office for as long as Antonio Guterres remains in the position.

Danon alleged that Guterres made the decision to add Israeli entities to a blacklist covering sexual violence in conflict zones, which led the ambassador to suspend ties with the UN Secretary-General’s Office.

“We are a strong democracy. We invited UN representatives to travel to Israel to investigate these absurd allegations. They chose not to come. They opted instead to continue their targeted campaign against Israel. We saw the falsehoods published in The New York Times, and now we are seeing yet another lie coming from the UN,” Danon said in a video shared with Digital.

“We are finished dealing with this Secretary-General,” he concluded.

The United Nations has not confirmed that Israel has been added to the sexual violence blacklist. The UN did not respond to a request for comment submitted by Digital.

Digital also reached out to The New York Times to request a statement on the matter.

The Jerusalem Post was the first outlet to report on Wednesday evening that the Israeli Prison Service will be included on the UN’s list of actors that commit sexual violence in conflict zones.

In early May, The New York Times published an opinion piece by writer Nicholas Kristof accusing Israeli prison guards of carrying out institutionalized sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners. Kristof cited a 2025 UN report that described alleged Israeli sexual abuse of Palestinians as “standard operating procedures towards Palestinians.”

Israeli officials strongly rejected the core premises of the piece, accusing Kristof and the Times of spreading blood libel, and threatened to file a lawsuit against the outlet in United States courts.

“In an incomprehensible inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused. Israel — whose citizens were the victims of the most horrific sexual crimes committed by Hamas on October 7, and whose hostages were later subjected to further sexual abuse — is portrayed as the party at fault,” the Israel Foreign Ministry wrote in a post on X in response to the Times piece.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry offered additional comments on Thursday regarding the reported UN blacklisting.

“Over the past year, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN and the Israeli delegation held a series of meetings with UN representatives and provided documents, data, as well as a detailed response to all the allegations that were raised. Despite these efforts, the UN Secretary-General chose to move forward with a politically motivated decision and include Israel alongside Hamas and other terrorist organizations,” the foreign ministry wrote in a statement shared with Digital.

“The shameful and absurd UN decision to include Israeli entities in the annex to the CRSV report is further proof of the UN’s true nature: a politicized and corrupt organization that has abandoned its founding principles and makes systematically targeting Israel its primary mission. This decision is yet another example of the UN’s long-standing, institutionalized hostility toward Israel. Today’s decision must be understood in its real context: an attempt to create a false equivalence between Israel and the actual sexual atrocities committed by Hamas. That is its only motivation. The person behind this farce is Antonio Guterres,” the statement continued.

“This is the same Guterres who sought to ‘contextualize’ the October 7 massacre, who covered up the involvement of UN employees in those atrocities, and who has dragged the UN to its lowest point in history. Guterres is now exploiting his final months as Secretary-General to fabricate baseless accusations against Israel that are completely devoid of any factual merit. Israel has comprehensively, thoroughly, and unequivocally refuted all of these allegations. Given that António Guterres has chosen to violate every standard of honesty, integrity, and professionalism, Israel has decided to sever all ties with the Secretary-General’s Office and will wait until a new UN Secretary-General is appointed,” the statement concluded.