With just two days before Israel outside the operations on the ground of the main Aidezia di Aidanzia United Nations for Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, addressed the matter in a meeting in which the United States were the The only Israeli defender.
Israeli laws target a 75 -year -old agency that was a backbone of the delivery of humanitarian aid to two million Palestinians in Gaza, just like a fragile ceased, the fire is taking hold there. The Agency also helps the Palestinians in Israeli western West West and East Jerusalem.
Tuesday, high officials of the United Nations and each member of the Security Council save the United States have defined the actions of Israel a violation of his obligations pursuant to international law and the United Nations Charter. They warned that restrictions would have a disastrous impact on the delivery of aid and jeopardizing long -term peace.
“The legislation makes mockery of international law and imposes enormous constraints,” said Philippe Lazzarini the head of the help agency, known as UNRWA. “We are determined, however, to stay and deliver until it is no longer possible to do it.”
The provisional representative of the Trump administration to the United Nations, Dorothy Shea, rejected the agency’s statements as exaggerated and called warnings that the aid will stop “irresponsible and dangerous”. He said the United States supported “Israel’s sovereign decision” to close the offices of the help agency on his soil.
The legislation, approved by the Israeli Parliament in October, also prohibits the contact between Israeli officials and employees of the Agency, which is formally known as the United Nations Agency for the United Nations rescue for Palestine refugees in the Near East.
Israeli officials accused the agency of being infiltrated by Hamas militants, the militant group with which he was at war in Gaza since October 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel. The two parts reached a ceased a little week ago.
The UNRWA was formed in the wars of the wars surrounding the Israel plant in 1948. Its mandate includes the supply of food, essential aid, health care, education, accommodation and other Palestinian services in the Middle East who were displaced by that conflict, as well as descendants by them.
On Tuesday, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, told the diplomats that Israel’s decision to outline essentially the group was not political but instead was rooted in national security. He said Israel would collaborate with other United Nations agencies.
Mr. Danon informed the United Nations of Israel of Israel to enforce the law in a letter on Friday who told the Council that the legislation that aims at UNRWA would have entered full effect on Thursday. He said the agency “must cease its operation and evacuate the premises that operates in Jerusalem”.
In an answer to Israel’s letter, the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, in a letter on Monday asked Israel to reverse the course, said that, pursuant to international law, Israel was obliged to facilitate the work of the Agenzia, do not hinder it.
Guterres said that the premises of the assistants aid has been ordered to free up to Jerusalem Est is a property of the United Nations protected pursuant to international law.
At the same time, he said he took Israeli accusations very seriously on the ties between the workers of URwa and Hamas and who had taken decisive actions to face them.
Two united nations investigations began in response to Israel were discovered that less than 10 agencies of agencies on 13,000 were affiliated with Hamas. They were fired. The European Union said that Israel did not show evidence for its accusations of large infiltration and resumed donations to the agency.
Tuesday Lazzarini has described a fundamental role for his agency in Gaza since the beginning of the war. He said he had delivered the two thirds of all food assistance, supplied refuge to over one million displaced and vaccinated Palestinians for a quarter of million children against polio.
Tuesday was not the first time that the United States remained alone at the Safety Council in defense of Israel, a narrow ally. The Biden administration placed the four resolutions of ceased the fire at the Security Council, standing next to Israel, who said that he was not ready to end the war. Another American ally, Great Britain, was among the other 14 members of the Council who spoke against the Israeli law.
“The vital work of UNRWA in ensuring that Palestinians have access to education and health care must also be protected in Gaza and West Bank and Jerusalem Est,” said the British deputy ambassador, James Kariuki. “These represent the most fundamental of human rights”.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian representative of the United Nations, told the Council that Israel had worked for a long time to dismantle the agency as part of a strategy to remove the status of refugees from the displaced Palestinians and therefore their right to return to their old lands.
“There is no alternative to the Palestinian government and there is no alternative to UNRWA,” said Mansour. “Israel cannot choose who represents the Palestinian people or those who represent the United Nations”