“I am shocked by the misrepresentations by some of my statement yesterday in the Security Council as if I was justifying acts of terror by Hamas,” he said at the UN’s headquarters in New York.
“This is false. It was the opposite,” he said in a brief address.
Guterres said he had condemned the Hamas attack on Israel and noted that he had emphasised that “nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians, or the launching of rockets against civilian targets”.