katzenberger#PhilippeLazzarini, the outgoing commissioner-general of #UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East:
»In December 2023, amid the escalating brutality of the war in #Gaza, I wrote to the president of the #UN general assembly that in my 35 years of working in complex emergencies, I had never had cause to report the killing of 130 personnel, nor to predict the killing of many more.
I did not imagine then that the number of colleagues killed would triple – the death toll is now more than 390 – or that so many others would sustain life-changing injuries, or be arbitrarily detained and tortured. […]
It is incomprehensible that a UN entity has been allowed to be crushed as #Unrwa has, in violation of international law, with total impunity, and with staff and Palestinian communities paying an unacceptable price.«
The German government, under former chancellor #Scholz and former foreign minister #Baerbock, helped to legitimize and to orchestrate this.
To me it is incomprehensible how Baerbock, a willing assistant of #Israel's #genocide in Gaza, and of its murdering of UNRWA staff, can today be the President of the United Nations General Assembly. She belongs into the dock of the International Criminal Court #ICC.
Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing
I bow out of my role for the organisation at a perilous time for the international law. There are consequences not just for Palestinians, but the wider Middle East, says Unrwa commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini
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