Israel cuts off contact with UN Secretary-General after Israeli Prisons Authority added to sexual violence blacklist

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Israel cuts off contact with UN Secretary-General after Israeli Prisons Authority added to sexual violence blacklist
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Additional Israeli authorities are being reviewed for possible addition at a later stage.

With the blacklisting, the prison authority joins groups such as Hamas and IS, and state actors in, among others, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Israel reacts with anger.

This is a moral disgrace and represents a complete collapse of any credibility the UN has left, said UN Ambassador Danny Danon, who announced that contacts with Guterres are now being cut off.

In March last year, a UN commission found in a report that Israel is using sexual violence against imprisoned Palestinians.

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