The Israeli regime has defended its decision to ban the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, accusing the leader of the world’s top international body of “anti-Semitic behavior.”

The Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday justified Tel Aviv’s decision to ban Guterres from entering the Israeli-occupied lands after more than 100 UN member nations protested the move.

He claimed that they banned Guterres from “entering Israel because he did not condemn the Iranian missile fire” on occupied territories and “his anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli behavior.”

Iran carried out a retaliatory operation against the Israeli regime, dubbed Operation True Promise II, on October 1 in response to the regime’s assassinations of Hamas’s chief Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan.

The United Nations on Wednesday called Israel’s decision to label the UN chief as a “persona non grata” and ban Guterres from entering the Israeli-occupied Palestinian lands as an abortive political move.