{"id":5831,"date":"2024-07-24T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2024-07-24T09:14:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:14:41","slug":"leaked-un-report-israeli-war-has-killed-366-un-staff-and-family-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=5831","title":{"rendered":"leaked UN report: Israeli war has killed 366 UN staff and family members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
leaked<\/a><\/span> UN report: Israeli war has killed 366 UN staff and family members as Netanyahu prepares to address Congress. The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of UN workers in Gaza. \u00a0<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>READ IN APP\u00a0<\/a>Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress on March 3, 2015. Photo: Win McNamee\/Getty Images. Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza had killed at least 172 dependents of United Nations staff by the end of June, according to a confidential UN report obtained by Drop Site, in addition to 195 staff members. The previously unreported data reflects the extraordinary toll not just for employees of the United Nations but for their families and emerges as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.\u00a0Netanyahu, the subject of a potential arrest warrant from the U.N.\u2019s International Criminal Court, will meet while in the United States with outgoing President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, and presidential hopeful\/Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris, while meeting with Netanyahu privately, has declined to appear behind him during his address. At least 21 lawmakers, including some establishment\u00a0figures such as Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., will be boycotting Netanyahu\u2019s address. The data put together by the U.N.\u2019s Crisis Coordination Centre also includes a breakdown by agency, finding five U.N. Development Program dependents, four\u00a0UNICEF\u00a0dependents, three World Food Program family members, and two World Health Organization dependents who have been killed. 158 dependents of staff for UNRWA, or the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, have been killed.\u00a0
In May,\u00a0the U.N. reported that 188 staff members of UNRWA\u00a0had been killed by then, but has not previously disclosed the extent of the familial casualties.\u00a0Among staff, the killings are similarly concentrated among UNRWA employees. The report was circulated internally on July 1, before the U.N.\u2019s International Court of Justice announced its landmark finding that Israel\u2019s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank is illegal and must be ended.
The UN did not respond to a request for comment. Israeli attacks on U.N. staff have continued since. This weekend,\u00a0a U.N. spokesperson said\u00a0that a U.N. convoy was fired on by Israeli forces despite tight coordination ahead of time. State Department spokesperson\u00a0Matt Miller said Monday\u00a0that the U.S. had requested information from Israel about its latest strike on the convoy, adding that he appreciated the \u201cenormous sacrifice and enormous risk humanitarian workers put themselves under.\u201d Miller said that Secretary of State Antony Blinken had met Monday with a top U.N. official and discussed the issue.

Asked if the U.S. was prepared to dole out consequences if Israel continued killing aid workers, he said, \u201cI don\u2019t have anything to read out on that at this time.\u201dThe UN report is the latest in a series of alarming findings regarding Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza. Most recently, the UN Special Rapporteur reported\u00a0“reasonable grounds to believe”\u00a0that Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza may constitute genocide, a finding echoing the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which\u00a0ruled in January\u00a0that \u201cthe Court considers that the plausible rights in question in these proceedings, namely the right of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to be protected from acts of genocide and related prohibited acts identified in Article III of the Genocide Convention and the right of South Africa to seek Israel\u2019s compliance with the latter\u2019s obligations under the Convention, are of such a nature that prejudice to them is capable of causing irreparable harm.
However, Israel\u2019s massacre in Gaza continues unabated. On July 22, Israel killed 89 people and injured at least 250 in a\u00a0new assault on Khan Younis\u00a0after\u00a0ordering 400,000 people\u00a0to leave their homes and refugee camps in the rapidly shrinking \u201csafe zones\u201d of Gaza,\u00a083 percent of which\u00a0is now a \u201cno-go zone.\u201d Bombings in the no-go zone have also not stopped; in the\u00a0past 12 hours, dozens have been killed in Al Sabra, Jabalia, and Gaza City neighborhoods. On Tuesday, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud\u00a0said in an interview with Breaking Points\u00a0that Michigan voters supportive of Palestinian rights, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, were holding out hope that a Harris administration would be less ideologically rigid in its support for Israel\u2019s war.
\u201cThe door is open,\u201d he said, adding that representatives of the Harris team had already begun reaching out to local Muslim leaders to set up meetings.\u00a0Republican candidate Trump, meanwhile, has left little hope there would be a significant departure from Biden\u2019s policy were he to be elected. Basem Naim, a member of the political bureau of Hamas in Gaza, told Drop Site\u2019s Jeremy Scahill that Trump\u2019s recent belligerence was a reminder that there is little difference between the two parties on the question of Israel and Palestine.\u00a0
\u201cSad to hear such statements, because it reflects that the complicit American policies towards the conflict here are a non-partisan issue and regardless who will win the election the blind and disgraceful support of USA to Israel will continue,\u201d Naim said in a comment issued following Trump\u2019s speech at the Republican National Convention before Biden dropped out. \u201cBut we can very confident[ly] reassure Mr. Trump, that the Democrats have already done the maximum to help their puppet in the region and they both have failed to achieve any of their goals, therefore use your time to put a new strategy to rescue your puppet from its ominous demise, a new strategy based on justice and genuine rights of all people to freedom, dignity, and self-determination.\u201dRobust protests\u00a0inside the Cannon House Office Building<\/a>\u00a0were held on\u00a0Tuesday by Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow,\u00a0<\/a>with more planned for Wednesday to coincide with Netanyahu\u2019s speech.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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