UN comes under pressure over war in Gaza Mike Segar/Portal 10/26/2023
Spokesperson for the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations (UN), Séphane Dujarric, said on Tuesday (31) that a senior official at the United Nations Human Rights Office had resigned due to what he described as “failures”. UN in Palestine“.
Dujarric did not name the employee, but acknowledged that the Genevabased human rights office, headed by Volker Türk, received a termination letter in which the employee explained “his personal reasons.”
The letter, which was made available to the press shortly afterwards, is signed by Craig Mokhiber, who until this Tuesday was the New York director of the agency led by Türk.
In the letter, Mokhiber explains that the United Nations is under “enormous pressure to compromise its humanitarian principles” and that “some parties in the UN, even at the highest levels, have shamefully kowtowed to power” when it comes to rights of people is Palestinian, although he also claims that there are many in the organization who refuse to make concessions.
Mokhiber explains that Israel uses strong “propaganda” to portray itself as equal to the Jewish people and therefore presents any criticism as antiSemitism, which is not the case, for example, with criticism of Saudi Arabia or Myanmar, which are not seen as Islamophobia or antiBuddhism.
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The nowformer official, who worked at the United Nations for several decades, encourages the office he just left to “proudly join the antiapartheid movement that is growing around the world and championing the rights of the Palestinian people “.
A senior US State Department official resigned two weeks ago for the same reasons: Josh Paul, in charge of parliamentary affairs in the politicalmilitary department, said that the Joe Biden administration’s “blind” support for Israel was leading to decisions are “shortsighted, destructive and contradictory to the values” he is proud of.
Israel releases new photos of the army in the Gaza Strip
The Israeli army’s land invasion of the Gaza Strip continues this Monday (30) as the military approaches more urbanized areas around the city of Gaza. The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) released new photos of the actions. See below
Israel expanded land operations on Friday (27)with incursions into border towns such as Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia in the north. However, in the last few hours there has been an advance towards the suburbs of Gaza City
Several clashes with local terrorists have been recorded in the last few hours. The army had previously reported claimed to have killed four Hamas terrorists
The Israeli military also operates on Gaza’s southern border, near the town of Khan Younis, and in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north. The IDF claims to have destroyed dozens of terrorist cells over the weekend and this Monday. Israeli tanks continue to advance towards densely populated areas in the Gaza Strip. “During the night, the troops eliminated dozens of terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings and tried to attack forces that were moving in their direction,” said IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari. The four Hamas leaders killed in the last hours: Jamil Baba, commander of Hamas’ naval forces in its central brigade; Muhammad Safadi, antitank missile unit commander in Tuffah Battalion; Muwaman Hijazi, a prominent member of Hamas’s antitank missile unit; and Muhammad Awdallah, a senior agent in Hamas’ production department