Germany says it will resume coordination with UNRWA

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26. I know well enough to have read the actual report on UNRWA's adherence to the humanitarian principle

of neutrality and to understand that the panel was investigating UNRWA breaches of a humanitarian principle, not Israel's claims about October 7.

From the report:

The Group was created to assess whether UNRWA is doing everything within its power to ensure neutrality and respond to allegations of serious neutrality breaches when they are made, taking into account the […] context in which it has to work, especially in Gaza, and to make recommendations for UNRWA to improve and strengthen in this area, if necessary. This followed allegations made by the Government of Israel in January 2024 that some UNRWA staff may haveparticipated in the 7 October 2023 terror attacks on Israel.

The UN Secretary-General also activated a separate investigation by the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) to determine the veracity of these allegations, which, if proven true, would be horrifying in addition to being a grave violation of their obligations towards the Organization.

https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2024/04/unrwa_independent_review_on_neutrality.pdf

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I also know well enough to actually listen to what the chair of the panel said at her press conference:

Colonna emphasized Monday that Israel cooperated with her team and that it was not within her mandate to examine evidence against individual employees in connection with Oct. 7. That was “a separate mission,” she told reporters.

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Speaking at a news conference at U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday, Ms. Colonna said she wanted to be “very clear” that the question of involvement in Oct. 7 is a separate question, one that remains under internal investigation by the United Nations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/22/unrwa-israel-hamas-report-palestinians/

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Side note: While congratulations are generally not in order for actually reading a primary source, I join you in congratulating anyone who has done due diligence rather than rely on clickbait headlines.

This includes "the countries" reassured by the UN having accepted the panel's 50 recommendations for reforming UNRWA.

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