The global body has previously said that no entities outside of the United Nations can provide adequate and necessary assistance to Gazans.
“Hamas knows if it loses control over the aid, it loses control over the people of Gaza,” Danny Danon told the United Nations Security Council.
By Canaan Lidor
A top official had falsely claimed that 14,000 infants faced death within 48 hours.
By Vita Fellig
“Israel is demanding something basic, moral, human—to return our boys and girls home,” said Danny Danon, the Israeli envoy to the UN.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Knesset passed a law in October making it illegal for the terror-linked agency to operate in the Jewish state.
By David Isaac
“We know and have experience that very often laws that are enacted in the Knesset are not necessarily applied,” MK Dan Illouz said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
More than 60 wanted suspects were arrested during counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria.
Since October 7, the COI has outrageously accused Israel of committing crimes against humanity in Gaza, while refusing to say the same about Hamas.
Israel's U.N. mission in Geneva slammed the report as baseless and biased, while Prime Minister Netanyahu called the U.N. Human Rights Council "an antisemitic, terrorist-supporting body."
The report called on prosecutors at the ICC “to pursue investigations into and prosecutions of hostage-taking and torture” and for the creation of a UN fund to support hostages that would be “funded in part by confiscations of financial assets and property imposed by sanctions.”
Ukraine almost never supports Israel in the anti-Israel UN votes.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hezbollah supporters also blocked Beirut airport in response to the Lebanese ban on incoming flights from Iran.
A U.N. spokesman told JNS that accusations that the global body pressured agencies not to absorb UNRWA’s mandate are untrue.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Outlawing the U.N. agency is “a direct response to the widespread infiltration of UNRWA’s ranks by Hamas,” Ambassador Danny Danon said.
The U.N. secretary-general is slated to meet with the Israeli president on Monday, when the latter keynotes a Holocaust remembrance event
Over 10% of UNRWA’s senior educators in Gaza are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Birds of a feather flock together," Gideon Sa'ar write about Karim Khan and Syrian jihadist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Israeli officials have been critical of the peacekeepers for failing to stop Hezbollah.
By Israel Hayom
Judge Julia Sebutinde made headlines for her rejection of South Africa's genocide claims against Israel.
The IDF presented the Hezbollah threats to the monitoring mechanism, but the threats were not addressed.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Terror groups "significantly influence the policies and practices of a U.N. agency with 30,000 employees, and a $1.5 billion annual budget that is funded primarily by Western states," per the report.
However, the 41,000-acre reserve, was enshrined as a “no-build” zone under the 1998 Wye River Memorandum.
U.N. officials indicated they are preparing to terminate operations primarily because of new Israeli legislation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The big question is whether the president and the secretary of state are going to sign on to it or not,” Michael Doran said on his podcast.
By Ariel Kahana
The parents of Yonatan Samerano, whose body is being held by Hamas, have sued the U.N. agency over its employee's involvement in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
Some traditional allies of the Jewish state side with PLO as an Israeli diplomat slams “reckless disregard for the truth” in resolutions that have been floated this week.
By Max Gelber
"As a legal matter, establishing a pattern of violence as a genocide requires demonstrating intent. Israel’s campaign of self-defense doesn’t qualify."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
More than 10% of UNRWA principals and senior educators in Gaza are members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad, according to Israeli NGO IMPACT-se.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
UNRWA employees took part in the October 7 massacre and many of its workers are Hamas operatives.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The intention might be for the Palestinians to leave Gaza, for others to occupy it," Guterres told The Guardian.
Israel advised UNIFIL to withdraw for their own safety, as they have been acting as human shields for Hezbollah.
92 of 120 MKS overwhelmingly voted to bar UNRWA
After Mohammad Abu Itiwi’s death, Israeli officials provided a photograph placing him at the scene of the Oct. 7 bomb-shelter killings.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Iranian terror proxy allegedly paid UNIFIL personnel to use their positions and took control of surveillance cameras.
By David Isaac
"The U.S. must ensure that taxpayer funded aid is not distributed to US-designated terrorists, or their allies."
By Joshua Marks
UNIFIL peacekeepers are human shields for Hezbollah.
The proposals were passed unanimously by the committee following extensive discussions.
It is now believed that Sinwar may still be alive.
“Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the world has done, does not deserve to step foot on Israeli soil,” the Israeli foreign minister said.
Sherif was the principal of UNRWA’s Deir Yassin School in Tyre and also headed the UNRWA teacher’s union in Lebanon.
Yet another enemy of Israel. They're a dime a dozen.
The Muslims built their mosque on top of our Temple Mount, and then have the nerve to call us the "occupiers"!?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Imagine releasing two statements calling for a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon as if the government of Lebanon has any agency and sovereignty,” wrote Jason Brodsky, of United Against Nuclear Iran.
The eight-page resolution lacks any mention of Israeli security concerns, historic ties to the land or the Hamas massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If passed, the ethnic cleansing resolution would signify an escalation from the anti-Israel language previously endorsed by the UNGA.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli premier is slated to meet with world leaders on the sidelines of the event in New York.
Three of the nine terrorists eliminated were also UNRWA employees.
Lazzarini issued a statement charging that UNRWA was “forced to close all its schools turning them into shelters for displaced families” because of the war in Gaza.
The resolution is expected to be brought to a vote at the U.N. General Assembly, which is scheduled to open on Sept. 10
During searches in the area of the Gazan school compound, troops found guns, explosives, vests and Hamas intelligence documents.
Private sector and other organizations have picked up their trucks, while the UN hasn't, despite getting additional time to do so.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The publication's initial title was along the lines of "terrorists spare four of seven buildings at World Trade Center," wrote Michael Brendan Dougherty of “National Review.”
“It is too little, too late—ignoring thousands of agency employees involved to various degrees in Hamas’s terror activities,” wrote Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan.
Israel is refusing to extend visas for a significant portion of U.N. staff and other non-governmental organizations.
Washington “put pressure on the Israelis to allow for humanitarian assistance to get in unimpeded, and we continue to work on those efforts,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The Conservative government suspended funding to UNRWA. Today, the Labour government is restoring it,” Lammy wrote on social media.
Protests inside the Security Council chamber are rare, and the Russian foreign minister, who chaired the meeting, appeared not to understand the protesters.
Hamas used the Abu Oraiban School as a hideout and as a point to direct and launch attacks on Israeli soldiers.
Philippe Lazzarini defends his agency’s scattered and disputed humanitarian aid record keeping.
The controversial U.N. rapporteur’s visit to Australia and New Zealand included raising funds for a "Palestinian" lobby group and lobbying sovereign wealth fund to divest from Israel.
Soldiers also eliminated dozens of other terrorists and destroyed combat compounds and booby-trapped buildings.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The United Nations, USAID’s partner in aid delivery, admitted that its claims of famine in Gaza are not data-based.
Israeli aircraft struck several terrorists operating a command center in a United Nations Relief and Works Agency School in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
The investigative unit of the United Nations opened a case probing whether pro-Hamas lobbying groups funded Francesca Albanese’s trips in 2023 to Australia and New Zealand.
Inside the UN school, soldiers seized weapons, grenades and intelligence documents.
None of the three benchmarks for famine have been met.
Weapons and tunnel shafts have been found in numerous UNRWA facilities.
Virginia Gamba, special representative to the U.N. secretary-general, told JNS that word count limits left no space to mention that the terror organization embeds deliberately among civilians.
"...if famine were to occur in Gaza, it is unlikely to be due to any limitations posed by Israel on the food supply entering the Gaza Strip,” the 31-page study concluded.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As the Netherlands’ minister for foreign affairs, her ministry had paid part of the salaries of two terrorists involved in the murder of an Israeli teen.
By Ariel Kahana
At least some of the experts mentioned by Khan had expressed negative views towards the Jewish state long before the outbreak of the war.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The circumstances of the detentions were not immediately clear, the Associated Press reported.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Absent decisive leadership at the White House, Congress must stand in the breach defending our allies and our sovereignty,” said Rep. Chip Roy, of Texas.
The IDF said precise munitions were used to minimize harm to civilians in the area.
Francesa Albanese’s “support for terrorism and promotion of antisemitism” “is now compounded by serious financial improprieties,” said the NGO in a complaint filed to the U.N. secretary general.
Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Arieh King noted,"They’re building illegal buildings, they have petrol stations in places they’re not allowed to have."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“To maintain its judicial integrity, the court must avoid reacting to every shift in the conflict and refrain from micromanaging the hostilities in the Gaza Strip, including Rafah,” wrote Julia Sebutinde.
Israel denounced UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for signing a condolence book at Iran’s mission to the UN over the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday.
IDF soldiers found weapons inside a UN Relief and Works Agency facility in Jabalya. No surprise there.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in the 1988 execution of 30,000 Iranian political prisoners.
On May 10, Politico reported that the California-based Center for Truth and Justice sent a petition to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, accusing Azerbaijan of genocide against Artsakh Armenians (The ICC should consider the new Armenian genocide petition). Never mind the fact that the 100,000 Armenians who recently left Karabakh and resettled in […]
“Calling something a genocide, again and again, does not make it genocide,” said Gilad Noam, an attorney for the Jewish state. “Repeating a lie does not make it true.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The government voted unanimously to reject the United Nations' decision to grant the Palestinian Authority unprecedented rights for a non-member state.
The Hamas war room was embedded in a UN Relief and Works Agency school in the central Gaza area of Nuseirat.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel called on the United Nations to investigate.
OCHA is a very hostile agency to Israel.
“It’s outrageous that only seven months later, the United Nations is questioning the Hamas-supplied casualty numbers,” an HonestReporting board member told JNS.
The global body is paving the way for “the establishment of a Palestinian terror state, which will be led by the Hitler of our times,” Israel’s envoy said.
Three IDF soldiers were killed in a Hamas attack that preceded the Israeli retaliation.
By David Isaac
ICRC administrator Haythem Abid marches in anti-Israel rallies and posts Hamas propaganda.
Gilad Erdan told the U.N. General Assembly that body’s anti-Israel animus is the reason U.S. “universities are permitting this Nazi-like behavior.”
Irene Khan, U.N. special rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion, lamented what she said was confusion between hate speech, incitement and what is "basically a different view of the situation in Israel"
Dennis Francis called the holiday a “season of rebirth and renewal, the triumph of hope and faith.”
It is unclear how that figure was tabulated; it would mean that some 28,000 children have been killed since Oct. 7—a number not even claimed by Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. hopes to begin delivering aid using the new pier by early May.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has warned that unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the U.N. General Assembly will result in an immediate halt to all transfers of funds to the P.A.
“Hamas has infiltrated UNRWA so deeply that it is no longer possible to determine where UNRWA ends and where Hamas begins,” a ministry spokesman said.
Hamas never delivered the medicine to the hostages either.
Israel demanded an urgent meeting of the Security Council to “unequivocally condemn” Iran’s overnight attack.
The hate and hypocrisy in the UN continued today...