Middle East crisis live: US says Hamas has ‘moved the goal post’ on Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Israel
State department says Hamas has changed their demands, but that the US will keep pushing for an agreementSee all our Israel-Gaza war coverageIreland’s foreign minister, Micheál Martin, has welcomed the conclusion of the Colonna report into the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unwra), which found that Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency are members of terrorist organisations.The Colonna report, which was commissioned by the UN in the wake of Israeli allegations, found that Unrwa had regularly supplied Israel with lists of its employees for vetting, and that “the Israeli government has not informed Unrwa of any concerns relating to any Unrwa staff based on these staff lists since 2011”.We were very clear from the word go that you could not replace or undermine Unwra’s role in terms of giving vital aid, teaching, education.Half a million children in Gaza have been without education, and the only credible organisation that can deliver education is Unrwa. Continue reading...
State department says Hamas has changed their demands, but that the US will keep pushing for an agreement
Ireland’s foreign minister, Micheál Martin, has welcomed the conclusion of the Colonna report into the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unwra), which found that Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency are members of terrorist organisations.
The Colonna report, which was commissioned by the UN in the wake of Israeli allegations, found that Unrwa had regularly supplied Israel with lists of its employees for vetting, and that “the Israeli government has not informed Unrwa of any concerns relating to any Unrwa staff based on these staff lists since 2011”.
We were very clear from the word go that you could not replace or undermine Unwra’s role in terms of giving vital aid, teaching, education.
Half a million children in Gaza have been without education, and the only credible organisation that can deliver education is Unrwa. Continue reading...
