Foreign Minister Israel Katz slammed the world body’s leader after the latter blamed Jerusalem for the suffering in Gaza.
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The plaintiffs seek damages and a determination that UNRWA USA breached its legal obligations under federal anti-terror laws.
Phillipe Lazzarini, who heads the UN agency, told reporters that “many” of the 16 countries that suspended aid “would like to come back.”
The report comes in the wake of Israeli fury over the lack of UN action on accusations of Hamas’s sexual violence.
“We have female hostages, I captured one,” Hamas terrorist who worked as UNRWA school teacher says in recorded call.
“UNRWA can never be part of a long-term solution to the conflict because at its core it seeks to perpetuate the conflict.”
“We have to plan for all possibilities,” said a State Department spokesman, amid congressional legislation to defund the scandal-plagued agency.
The social worker from the UN agency and another terrorist are seen stuffing the man’s body into the back of an SUV and driving off.
“If the aid agency is abolished, the status of the Palestinian refugees will be resolved once and for all—and with it the right of return,” said UNRWA commissioner-general Phillipe Lazzarini.
“Hamas is not a terrorist group, for us, of course, as you know, it’s a political movement,” UN Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths said.
