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UN VOTES TO ASK THE HAGUE IF ISRAEL UPHOLDING AID OBLIGATIONS TO PALESTINIANS
GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION IS SEEN AS A RESPONSE TO JERUSALEM BANNING UNRWA;
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Presiding Judge Nawaf Salam reads a non-binding advisory opinion regarding
Israel and disputed territories, in the International Court of Justice in The
Hague, Netherlands, July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)
The United Nations General Assembly voted on Thursday to ask the International
Court of Justice for an opinion on Israel’s obligations to facilitate aid to
Palestinians that is delivered by states and international groups including the
UN, amid Israel’s ongoing war against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip.
The Norwegian-drafted resolution was adopted by the 193-member body with 137
votes in favor. Israel, the United States and 10 other countries voted no, while
22 countries abstained.
The move was partly a response to Israel’s decision earlier this year to ban the
operation of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in Israel,
citing employees of the agency who were revealed to be terror operatives
involved in attacks against Israelis.
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The new Israeli law, passed in November, does not directly ban operations by the
UN Relief and Works Agency in the West Bank and Gaza. However, it will severely
impact UNRWA’s ability to work there. Top UN officials and the Security Council
describe UNRWA as the backbone of Gaza’s aid response.
The ICJ, known as the World Court, is the United Nations’s highest court, and
its advisory opinions carry legal and political weight, although they are not
binding. The Hague-based court has no enforcement powers if its opinions are
ignored.
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session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 30, 2024. (AP
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Israel is also facing accusations of genocide in the ICJ, in a case originally
brought by South Africa over the war in Gaza. Israel strenuously denies the
accusation, noting measures it takes to avoid civilian casualties in the war,
which started when some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel,
killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
The resolution adopted on Thursday expressed “grave concern about the dire
humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” and called upon
Israel “to uphold and comply with its obligations not to impede the Palestinian
people from exercising its right to self-determination.”
Voting no on the resolution, alongside Israel and the US, were Argentina, the
Czech Republic, Fiji, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea,
Paraguay, and Tonga.
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Since the war broke out with Hamas’s attack, international aid organizations
have repeatedly raised the alarm about what they describe as a humanitarian
crisis in Gaza.
Israel says it has worked to facilitate the entry of goods into the Strip,
casting blame on armed gangs, often backed by the enclave’s Hamas terror group,
that have repeatedly looted aid trucks. Jerusalem has also pointed a finger at
international aid organizations that it says have failed to collect or
effectively distribute the aid.
UN agencies and NGOs have highlighted the difficulties in distributing aid
within Gaza, citing challenges such as fuel shortages for trucks, lawlessness,
and numerous restrictions they claim are imposed by Israeli military authorities
on the ground, which the army says are necessary to keep aid workers out of
harm’s way as it battles Hamas.
The agencies and NGOs have also alleged that the volume of aid is insufficient.
A man carries a sack of donated flour distributed by UNRWA at the Nuseirat
refugee camp, Gaza Strip, December 3, 2024.(AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
REPLACE UNRWA?
In a letter to the 15-member Security Council on Wednesday, Israel’s UN
Ambassador Danny Danon said that “replacing UNRWA with relief schemes that will
adequately provide essential assistance to Palestinian civilians is not at all
impossible.”
“Israel is willing and ready to work with international partners [and already
does work tirelessly] so as to allow and facilitate the continued passage of
humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza, and to ensure the unhindered provision of
these necessary basic services, in a way that does not undermine Israel’s
security,” Danon wrote in the letter, seen by Reuters.
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Israel is working on a much-discussed plan that would see a private American
contractor provide humanitarian aid to Gaza in a small piece of territory as a
pilot, to reduce Hamas control over aid in Gaza, an Israeli official told The
Times of Israel on Wednesday.
“I can tell you we are in the stages where the operation will begin soon,” said
the official. The initial pilot will have the company operating under IDF
protection.
Israel has also cut down the number of trucks delivering food and products from
private sources, including businessmen, because Hamas is far more likely to loot
them than they are from trucks belonging to NGOs, the official said.
Israel has long had a combative relationship with UNRWA, which it argues has
perpetuated the Palestinian refugee crisis by allowing refugee status to be
passed down through generations. That anger peaked after Hamas’s October 7
onslaught, in which a number of UNRWA staffers were found to have participated.
Earlier this month, The New York Times revealed that some two dozen teachers,
counselors and administrators at UNRWA schools in Gaza are members of Hamas or
other terror groups.
In October, UNRWA confirmed that a Hamas commander who led the killing and
kidnapping of Israelis had been employed by the agency since July 2022.
And in February, the IDF revealed the existence of a subterranean Hamas data
center directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza Strip headquarters.
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