The question of whether UNRWA is complicit in war crimes is increasingly being discussed by a broader number of influential thinkers and lawyers, while in the background momentum is gaining to address this question in court.
UNRWA has unenthusiastically admitted on several occasions that militants in Gaza have used its facilities to store rockets and weapons, as confirmed by Ban Ki Moon, it has failed or is reluctant to provide the international community with appropriate documented evidence, and allegedly seems to have consistently returned the weapons to militants, rather than confiscate and publicly display the hoards.
"Yes, we uncovered cases in which weapons were stored in a small number of abandoned buildings. Yes, there were reports that Hamas rockets were fired from near UN premises.Yet, let me be clear: Mere suspicion of militant activity does not justify jeopardizing the lives and safety of many thousands of innocent civilians."
This may indeed lead to charges being directed in a wider range of subjects that will attempt to establish that UNRWA’s staffing in Gaza may have been infiltrated by militant organizations that placed operatives in key position within the organization itself .
Further question will arise as to how UNRWA funds are distributed and accounted for, with images surfacing of UNRWA labeled sacks of cement found in tunnels built by terrorist organizations. The wider scope of delving into UNRWA funding may lead to some serious implications regarding the organization’s accountability, transparency and complicity with terror organizations in the strip.
While researching this subject, we have also come up against increasing allegations that UNRWA has consistently and irresponsibly failed to protect the civilian population of Gaza, which it herded into shelters not designed to withstand warfare, leaving civilians in open enclosures that are vulnerable, while weapon stashes were hidden in UNRWA’s protected shelters.
Even as the subject of misappropriation of Palestinian aid funds was addressed in a few attempted investigation by the EU in the past, no serious considerations were ever attempted by UNRWA to follow suit.
Edit: Shurat Hadin's take on the issue
Even as the subject of misappropriation of Palestinian aid funds was addressed in a few attempted investigation by the EU in the past, no serious considerations were ever attempted by UNRWA to follow suit.
Edit: Shurat Hadin's take on the issue
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Looks guilty from here. At the very least it is guilty of keeping the Gazans dependent on the UN and EU. "Refugees" after so many decades? Only because the Dictator's Club (aka the UN) has made them so and, for its own political purposes, keeps them that way.
Not unless it was carrying lots of explosives.
I hope this will create a real legal precedent and allow to sue the UN to smithereens.
Who could say now?
There's an idea, politics doesn't work, nor news media, so tie them up in discovery and a trial and appeals for a few thousand years.
Yep, I think there is a chance we'll be able to find a few lawyers able to do so ;-)
For years it's been obvious that the UN has been complicit with the agendas of dictators and terrorists by dereliction of their basic premise of existence. It has been more than probable that they've been explicitly involved in active support of these people. The UN should be abandoned (legal avenues are an excellent idea), at the very least Israel should ignore them and pursue it's interests vigorously.
There is one thing I would love to watch: the UNRWA being torn apart by a shiver of legal sharks (just looked up how a group of sharks is called for the purpose). Hopefully Jewish sharks, too, which will be way more painful for the creeps. Than we can abandon them ;-)
I believe that article was written by Captain Obvious.
Is UNRWA
complicit in war crimes? well i don't know about "war crimes" but
they are responsible for hideous crimes.
Sounds like a great idea to me, Snoopy.
I think even our usually accepting of the UN media is finding the idea that Hamas did not use concrete that was supposedly given to UNRWA for peaceful development in Gaza, hard to swallow.
You bet!
And I wonder if it is only the cement we should worry about.
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