{"id":28109,"date":"2026-01-14T07:52:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=28109"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:53:00","slug":"un-chief-warns-he-could-refer-israel-to-icj-over-laws-targeting-unrwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=28109","title":{"rendered":"UN chief warns he could refer Israel to ICJ over laws targeting UNRWA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In October 2024, Israel passed a law banning the agency for Palestinian refugees in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City [File: Angela Weiss\/AP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he could take his country to the International Court of Justice if it does not repeal laws targeting the\u00a0UN Palestinian refugee agency<\/a>\u00a0(UNRWA) and return its seized assets and property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a January 8 letter to Netanyahu, Guterres said the UN cannot remain indifferent to \u201cactions taken by Israel, which are in direct contravention of the obligations of Israel under international law. They must be reversed without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s parliament passed a law in October 2024 banning UNRWA from operating in Israel and prohibiting Israeli officials from having contact with the agency. It then amended the law last month to ban electricity or water to UNRWA facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israeli authorities also seized UNRWA\u2019s occupied East Jerusalem offices last month. The UN considers East Jerusalem occupied by Israel. Israel considers all of Jerusalem to be part of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres said that UNRWA is \u201can integral part of the United Nations\u201d, and highlighted that \u201cIsrael remains under an obligation to accord UNRWA and its personnel the privileges and immunities specified in the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the UN\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0convention<\/a>\u00a0states that \u201cthe premises of the United Nations shall be inviolable.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, dismissed Guterres\u2019s letter to Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not fazed by the Secretary-General\u2019s threats,\u201d Danon said in a post on X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInstead of dealing with the undeniable involvement of UNRWA personnel in terrorism, the Secretary-General chooses to threaten Israel. This is not defending international law, this is defending an organization marred by terrorism,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/13\/un-chief-warns-he-could-refer-israel-to-icj-over-laws-targetting-unrwa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In October 2024, Israel passed a law banning the agency for Palestinian refugees in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he could take his country to the International Court of Justice if it does not repeal laws targeting the\u00a0UN Palestinian refugee agency\u00a0(UNRWA) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[25918,5648,1510,24303,5392,26239,17576,1149,24380,2640,1515],"class_list":["post-28109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-humanitarian-crisis","tag-icj-3","tag-israel-2","tag-israeli-atrocities-2","tag-israeli-brutalities-2","tag-israeli-violations-of-un-charter-2","tag-palestine-2","tag-un-2","tag-united-nation-2","tag-unrwa-2","tag-west-bank-2","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28111,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28109\/revisions\/28111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}