Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said on Saturday that the global body ought to remove Reem Alsalem from her post as U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.

“Any U.N. representative who denies Hamas rape must be removed from their post. Period,” Danon stated . “It is a stain on the U.N.’s reputation” that Alsalem “denies the sexual violence that took place on Oct. 7.”

“This is a moral disgrace, an insult to the victims and their families, and a violation of every basic international standard,” the envoy wrote. “Israel will not allow Hamas’s horrific crimes to be whitewashed.”

Danon was responding to a statement in which Alsalem wrote that “no Palestinian applauded rape in Gaza. No independent investigation found that rape took place on

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