Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz has slammed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for holding “a distressing bias” against Israeli victims of sexual assault, Al Jazeera reports.

In a letter sent to the UN chief before a Security Council session on Monday called to discuss Hamas’s use of sexual violence around the October 7 attacks, Katz said that Guterres’s office “would have responded in a much more vigorous way” if the victims weren’t Jewish or Israeli.

“The indifference displayed toward the report on Hamas’ sexual violence — crafted with bravery — is deplorable,” he wrote. “Your tenure at the UN is set to be remembered for diminishing the organization’s stature to an all-time low, allowing it to become an epicenter of antisemitism and anti-Israel incitement.”