Lazzarini claims 'dis-information campaign' against UNRWA putting agency staff at risk

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-26 13:37:31 | Updated at 2024-11-28 04:51:20 1 day ago

Lazzarini claims 'dis-information campaign' against UNRWA putting agency staff at risk
Jerusalem Post ^ | NOVEMBER 26,2024 | SAM HALPERN

Posted on 11/26/2024 5:05:25 AM PST by bert

“The spread of #disinformation against @UNRWA is meant to create chaos & divert attention from the political aims to dismantle the Agency,” Lazzarini wrote.

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini criticized a “spread of disinformation” that he said was putting the Palestinian refugee agency's staff at risk, in a Monday post to X/Twitter.

“The spread of #disinformation against @UNRWA is meant to create chaos & divert attention from the political aims to dismantle the Agency,” Lazzarini wrote.

UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, has come under intensified scrutiny since the start of the Israel-Hamas War in October of last year, and numerous members of the agency’s staff have been exposed as members of Hamas.

This month, UN Watch exposé reported that former UNRWA commissioner-general Pierre Krahenbuhl assured leaders of designated Palestinian terrorist organizations that “we are one” and “no one can separate us” during his term.

UNRWA staff and terror ties Also this month, an investigation by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education identified twelve UNRWA school principals and deputy principals as active members of terrorist organizations, with many holding commanding positions in terror units.

Lazzarini and UNRWA have denied knowledge of Hamas connections among their staff. After Israel eliminated Hamas official Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, the head of Lebanon’s UNRWA teachers' association, in a September airstrike in the country, Lazzarini denied knowledge of el-Amin’s Hamas involvement.

Lazzarini’s Monday post further stated, “The spread of false information continues unabated, causing harm to Palestine Refugees by undermining the only UN agency dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance, education, + primary health care to one of the most vulnerable communities in the region."

“UNRWA is the international community’s instrument put in place to address the plight of Palestine refugees in the absence of an alternative & until a just political solution is found.”

The UNRWA chief added that the alleged disinformation campaign was putting the lives of UNRWA staff in the West Bank and Gaza at risk.

TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; Israel; Lebanon; News/Current Events; War on Terror; Yemen
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UNWRA...... Unifil....... De facto Terror institutions that are part and parcel of the United Nations.

If not within the first week, then certainly within the first month, President Trump should cease all payments to all UN organizations. When the hue and cry and lamentations begin he must insist that several Organizations and especially UNWRA and Unifil be abolished.

Until they are dismantled, no money for anything

1 posted on 11/26/2024 5:05:26 AM PST by bert

To: bert

Is “Lazzarini” an Italian relative of Laz?

2 posted on 11/26/2024 5:15:37 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )

To: bert

The author says that this is disinformation? UNIFIL and UNRWA agents have been caught embedded with the terrorists, and supplied weapons etc., and have been killed with them.

3 posted on 11/26/2024 5:17:00 AM PST by Eli Kopter

To: tired&retired

[Is “Lazzarini” an Italian relative of Laz?]

I think it’s a canned pasta, like Beefaroni.

4 posted on 11/26/2024 5:19:12 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)

To: bert

Surely this jerk can identify the specific fale information, eh?

5 posted on 11/26/2024 5:19:34 AM PST by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)

To: bert

What about the pro-UNWRA disinformation?

6 posted on 11/26/2024 5:22:43 AM PST by Real Cynic No More (Things are fraying my nerves!)

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