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Israel refuses entry visas for UN personnel.
United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the decision had a significant impact on the humanitarian community’s ability to support Palestinians.
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“Of course we are still in contact with the Israeli authorities regarding this matter and hope it will be resolved,” Dujarric said, as quoted by Arab News, on Friday (9/11/2022).
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has refused to issue visas to officials of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Israel also accused aid agency employees of “undercounting” the number of Israeli civilians killed or injured in Palestinian attacks.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry says – as reported by the Israeli website Ynet – that OCHA employees continuously count Israelis killed in Palestinian operations, but fail to classify them as “terrorist attacks”.
“OCHA is accused of exposing the killing or injury of Israeli civilians in controversial circumstances, taking Palestinian casualty reports at face value and blaming Israel, including in clashes between IDF forces and Palestinian militants,” it said. law in the statement of the ministry.
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Arab News contacted the United Nations, OCHA’s office and the Israeli Foreign Ministry for comment, but received no response.
Meanwhile Shawan Jabarin, director general of the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq, told Arab News that he blamed the United Nations for its indolence and negligence in protesting the ban on previous international commissions of inquiry and special rapporteurs. which prevented Israel from entering the Palestinian Territory, even though Israel is required to cooperate with the United Nations.
