The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations called for the resignation of António Guterres as the leader of the United Nations. He called for Guterres to resign for saying that the Hamas attacks did not happen out of nowhere. He also claimed that Guterres shows understanding for the mass killing campaign of children, women, and the elderly. Do you agree? How do you view António Guterres's statements?

I agree that his statement was a disgrace. Disgrace for the UN and disgrace for the UN Secretary General, because we all agree that Hamas is a terror organization. You also agree with that, because even Portugal recognized them as a terror organization. We all agree that what they did on the 7th of October, killing and murdering in such a brutal way, 1,400 Israelis, including rapes, including beheading, including murders in the most cruel way, it's a terror crime. And we all agree that abducting more than 220 women, children, babies, elders, including Holocaust survivor, taking them as hostages, is a terror crime. So for terror crime that is being done by a terror organization shouldn't be any kind of justification. And if the Secretary General of the United Nation cannot say it in a blunt way, without hesitation, without any comments, I think it's a disgrace.

The Israeli foreign minister canceled a meeting with António Guterres following the criticism of the UN Secretary General. This decision comes after Guterres criticized Israel, stating that the country must respect humanitarian law in its military response. How do you, as the ambassador, view the canceling of this meeting diplomatically?

First of all, Israel is a democratic country, and we respect international law. We fight always according to the international law because this is what we do, not because the Secretary General of the United Nations tell us. It's because we are a democratic country that goes by the international law, and that's important thing to say. Regarding the minister canceling the meeting, I think it was very difficult for him to go and meet with Mr. Guterres right after the statements he's made, and I can understand why he canceled it.

According to the Israeli community in Porto, there are five more Israelis, including three minors, requesting Portuguese nationality quickly. They are being held hostage by Hamas. Another Israeli, Ofer Calderon, already holds Portuguese nationality. Do you believe that obtaining Portuguese nationality will help these hostages leave Gaza?

First of all, regarding all the issues of the Portuguese nationality, that's the kind of question you will have to ask your authorities and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Portugal. I can tell you that we have 222 people that were taken as hostages by the Hamas. The international community needs to do whatever they can to raise their voice to make sure that those people will be released, including the babies and the children and the women. Everybody needs to be released. It doesn't matter if they're Israelis, Portuguese, Chinese, or Argentinians. I don't care. They need to be released. It's just unforgivable and unimaginable that those people will be held as hostages in the Gaza Strip.

How is the information about dual nationality of citizens conveyed to Hamas?

I don't know. As I said, we are not differing between nationalities. We think that everybody should be released as soon as possible. I know that there are some countries that are in contact with other countries that are doing it, I don't know, Qatar or others, but we don't deal with that. We want the release of all people as soon as possible.