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Israel's Ban on UNRWA: A Declaration of War on the UN

by Luis Lema
EDITORIAL. By seeking to "prevent" any UNRWA activity in the Palestinian territory, Israel is sinking deeper into its status as a pariah state under international law.

Machine translation of the original text of the Le Temps editorial "๐™„๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™™๐™ž๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™™๐™š ๐™กโ€™๐™๐™‰๐™๐™’๐˜ผ ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ง ๐™„๐™จ๐™ง๐™–๐™šฬˆ๐™ก: ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™™๐™šฬ๐™˜๐™ก๐™–๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™™๐™š ๐™œ๐™ช๐™š๐™ง๐™ง๐™š ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™š ๐™กโ€™๐™Š๐™‰๐™" at https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/interdiction-de-l-unrwa-par-israel-une-declaration-de-guerre-contre-l-onu
๐ˆ๐ฌ๐ซ๐š๐ž๐ฅ'๐ฌ ๐๐š๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐”๐๐‘๐–๐€: ๐€ ๐ƒ๐ž๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐–๐š๐ซ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”๐

The two laws are contained in a few short paragraphs. They aim, literally, to "prevent" any activity of UNRWA " within the sovereign territory of the State of Israel". Adopted Monday evening by the Israeli parliament - only a handful of elected officials opposed them - these texts aim to make it impossible for the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees to continue its operations, whether in Gaza, the West Bank or East Jerusalem.

This is the culmination of a declaration of war not only against the Palestinians, millions of whom depend on the UN agency, but also against the international system. Their implementation will put Israel in direct violation of the UN Charter. By further obstructing relief for the martyred population of Gaza, Israel is also contravening the orders issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which has deemed it โ€œplausibleโ€ that genocide is being committed in Gaza.

The United States, but also many Western countries, including France and Germany, had warned the Israeli authorities against the temptation to take this step, which would further push Israel into the status of a pariah state in the eyes of international law. Nothing could be done.

๐’๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ž ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ•

In these laws, inspired by Israeli extremist groups, the parliamentarians explicitly refer to the abrogation of an agreement concluded between the UN and Israel on June 14, 1967. It is worth dwelling on this: having just won the Six-Day War, Israel will now control all of the Palestinian territories, including the refugee camps where the Palestinians were crammed following the creation of Israel in 1948.

Moshe Dayan, the famous Israeli warlord, did not hide his satisfaction: he had obtained that these Palestinian refugees continue to be taken care of by the UN, that is to say by the international community, and not by the Israeli occupier. A great victory, which will allow the Hebrew State to continue its colonization at a lower cost.

More than half a century later, the shift is spectacular. Gaza, the West Bank and the Arab part of Jerusalem now appear as an integral part of Israel's "sovereign territory". A territory in which the UN is now considered a hostile entity. Israeli parliamentarians are giving their government three months to fully implement these laws (even though the 1967 agreement has already been repealed). ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐›๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ: ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ก๐ฌ ๐š๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐ซ๐š๐ž๐ฅ๐ข ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ž๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐š๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐š๐ง ๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ ๐ž๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ซ. ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ.
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