Israeli envoy Danny Danon clashed with UN official Vanessa Frazier at a meeting to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.
“Be Quiet”: Israeli Envoy, Top UN Official’s Shouting Match At New York Meet
Israeli envoy Danny Danon clashed with UN official Vanessa Frazier at a meeting to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.
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Jun 20, 2026 07:49 am IST
Published On Jun 20, 2026 07:33 am IST
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“Be Quiet”: Israeli Envoy, Top UN Official’s Shouting Match At New York Meet
Danny Danon and Vanessa Frazier (File photos)
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Diplomatic niceties broke down at the United Nations on Friday when Israel’s ambassador and the UN secretary-general’s special representative for children and armed conflict became embroiled in a furious shouting match at a public hearing.
At a meeting in New York to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Israeli envoy, Danny Danon, demanded the resignation of Pramila Patten, who produced a report that blacklisted Israel for such alleged abuses for the first time, accusing her of bias.
“You caved to the secretary-general’s obsession with targeting Israel,” Danon said, referring to UN chief Antonio Guterres.
Another UN official, Vanessa Frazier, Guterres’ representative for children and armed conflict and compiler of a separate report that also blacklists Israel, interjected by shouting a point of order. She demanded that Danon refrain from “personal attacks” and added that she had “verified evidence.”
Danon said Frazier should be quiet.
“We are a member state, and you work for the U.N., and you will be quiet now. You will be quiet … you and your shameful report,” he said.
Frazier, Malta’s former UN ambassador, issued her report this week on behalf of Guterres warning that Israeli settler groups could be added to a global blacklist for violations against children as the UN chief voiced alarm at what he called a “staggering” rise in violations against Palestinian children.
Israel itself already features in that report’s so-called list of shame annexes for alleged violations.