The most exalted UN creation – the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees – is being isolated by the UN. While Israel destroyed UNRWA’s infrastructure several times and more severely during the genocide that started on 7 October 2023, the UN has failed its own humanitarian paradigm not only through funding, but now through collaboration with the US Board of Peace. Two diverging statements within days of each other – one by UNRWA’s Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini and the other by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, portray the divide between the humanitarian agency and its creator. In his final letter to the UN General Assembly, Lazzarini declared, “It is therefore incomprehensible to record here that, without immediate political […]
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