UN official: ‘The Jewish state’ has no right to self-defense
against Hamas
The twisted reasoning of Francesca Albanese, who serves as special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, is that Israel as a sovereign nation has no right to defend itself against Hamas.
Albanese, who has a long history of anti-Israel bias, brings the already antisemitic UN to a new low. In her thinking and in that of others who support Hamas, Israel must simply put down its weapons and allow its citizens to be savaged and its nation-state to be destroyed. No other nation on earth would be expected to do this. The darkest antisemitism continues to manifest itself globally. Despite the thinking of many, an Islamic jihad is being waged against Jews and Israel.
UN Official Says Israel Has No Right to Self-Defense
by Charles Hilu, Washington Free Beacon, November 7, 2023:
A U.N. official argued Saturday that Israel does not have a right to self-defense against Hamas under international law.
Francesca Albanese, who serves as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’s special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, argued on X Saturday that “self-defense” has a narrow meaning under Article 51 of the U.N. charter. That definition, she said, does not give the Jewish state the right to self-defense against Hamas because the threat stems from an armed group within “occupied territory” and not “another state.” Thus, “under Int’l Law Israel’s actions in Gaza cannot qualify as self-defense,” Albanese said.
Here, she ignores that fact that that armed group was elected by the people of Gaza. She also ignores the fact that Israelis evacuated Gaza in 2005 and it has not been 'occupied' since.
“Under Art 51, use of force in #SelfDefense is permissible solely to repel an armed attack by another State,” Albanese said. “Threats from armed groups from within occ. territory give state the RIGHT TO PROTECT ITSELF, but not to wage war against the state from which the armed group emanates.”
Albanese has also said that Israel’s actions in Gaza are “criminal.”
Did she notice that Hamas' actions against Israel were far more criminal?
“The attacks are clearly indiscriminate, disproportionate and violate the principle of precaution,” she said in an interview with the Guardian published Tuesday. “One cannot bomb hospitals hosting hundreds of patients and sheltering thousands of refugees. Sorry, we need to look for another solution, and not to bomb hospitals. Absolutely not. This is criminal.”
Apparently, she believes Hamas' lies that the IDF bombed Gazan hospitals when most intelligence services around the world determined that it was a Gazan rocket that hit the parking lot of the hospital in Gaza City.
The day after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack that killed more than 1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians, Albanese said she was “horrified by the narrative” that focused outrage on Hamas for the attack. She also condemned Israel’s “militarized settler colonial occupation” and violence against “defenseless Palestinians.”
So, how many thousands of rockets did those defenceless Palestinians launch into Israel? Israel has no settlers in Gaza. She should have been horrified by the narrative of the crimes against humanity that Hamas committed against Jewish civilians. What a stupid woman!
A spokesman for Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Albanese’s comments are not representative of the U.N.’s position.
“The Special Rapporteur is independent and makes her own assessment,” the spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon. “Israel has legitimate security interests, in respect of which all measures taken must comply with international law, we therefore focus on conduct of hostilities and compliance with International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law.”….
UN agency staff celebrated Oct. 7 Hamas massacre
of Israeli civilians
UNRWA’s support for jihad terrorists has been abundantly documented, but no seems to mind.
UN Agency Staff Celebrated Oct. 7 Massacre, Part of ‘Terror Strategy’
at Root of Hamas Attack, Watchdog Says
by Debbie Weiss, Algemeiner, November 6, 2023:
Teachers at Palestinian schools run by the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees celebrated Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre against Israel and are part of a “national strategy to commit acts of terror,” the head of a watchdog group told The Algemeiner following the release of the group’s new bombshell report on the matter.
At least 14 teachers at schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) publicly celebrated the Hamas atrocities on their social media accounts, with one calling the morning of Oct. 7 an “unforgettable glorious morning,” a report released on Monday by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) found.
The report also identified at least 100 Hamas terrorists who are graduates of UNRWA’s educating system. It highlighted Amer Yaser Nazmi Sada, whose diploma was found in the vehicle of one of the terrorists who participated in the Oct. 7 slaughter of Israeli families. The diploma, granted to Sada in 2018 upon his graduation, was signed by the chief of UNRWA’s vocational program in Gaza, Farid Ajmi’an Abu Adhira.
One UNRWA employee in Gaza, Mahmoud Abu Adhm, uploaded several posts supporting the massacre by Hamas, the report showed. In one, posted three days after the attack, Abu Adhm urged the Palestinian terrorist group to kill Israeli hostages, citing Islamic texts: “Do not walk past a captive who has not been given amnesty without striking off his neck so as to terrorize the enemy.”
IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff told The Algemeiner: “When you teach young people to cut the neck of the enemy, do not be surprised when you see acts like that.”
“When you teach young people that Jews should be exterminated, do not be surprised when that is what they attempt to do,” he added.
In another instance, the official Facebook page of an UNRWA elementary school in the West Bank city of Nablus posted a video of a school rally held on Oct. 26 featuring a young boy, accompanied by what seems to be an UNRWA administrator, calling for victory for Hamas’ “jihad warriors” in Gaza and evoking the defeat of the Jews at Khaybar at the hands of Muhammad’s forces in 628 CE….
How desperate Muslims are to have to reach back 1400 years for something to celebrate.
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