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| | “This was premeditated. This was planned. This was instructed,” Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan said at the session, held at the UN’s Manhattan headquarters, according to All Israel News. [https://allisrael.com/hamas-sexual-violence-against-israeli-women-revealed-at-un-girls-without-any-clothes-on-without-tops-without-underwear]...</small></blockquote></ref> | | “This was premeditated. This was planned. This was instructed,” Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan said at the session, held at the UN’s Manhattan headquarters, according to All Israel News. [https://allisrael.com/hamas-sexual-violence-against-israeli-women-revealed-at-un-girls-without-any-clothes-on-without-tops-without-underwear]...</small></blockquote></ref> |
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| | + | On Dec 6, 2023, Israel revokes UN so-called "Humanitarian" Coordinator’s visa. Taking issue with Lynn Hastings position concerning Hamas’s October 7 infiltration of southern Israel, where it killed over 1,200 people and seized some 250 hostages. |
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| | + | <ref>Tovah Lazaroff, [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-776758?articleid=776758 Israel revokes UN Humanitarian Coordinator’s visa], ''JPost'', December 6, 2023.<blockquote><small> |
| | + | He took issue with her position concerning Hamas’s October 7 infiltration of southern Israel, where it killed over 1,200 people and seized some 250 hostages. |
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| | + | Israel revoked the visa of United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Lynn Hastings amid growing tensions with the global body due to the Gaza war. |
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| | + | “I decided to revoke the residence visa to Israel of the UN "humanitarian" coordinator Lynn Hastings,” Foreign Minister Eli Cohen wrote in a post on X. |
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| | + | He took issue with her position concerning Hamas’s October 7 infiltration of southern Israel, where it killed over 1,200 people and seized some 250 hostages. |
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| | + | “Someone who did not condemn Hamas for the brutal massacre of 1,200 Israelis, for the kidnapping of babies and the elderly and for the horrific acts of abuse and rape, and for using the residents of Gaza as human shields, but instead condemns Israel, a democratic country that protects its citizens, cannot serve in the UN and cannot enter Israel!,” Cohen wrote. |
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| | + | “We will no longer be silent in the face of the bias of the UN!,” he exclaimed. |
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| | + | ([https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822/560218] |
| | + | Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen speaks during a meeting on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas at UN headquarters in New York, US, October 24, 2023 - credit: REUTERS/SHANNON STAPLETON) |
| | + | Hastings had harshly criticized IDF actions in Gaza |
| | + | He revoked Hastings' visa after she harshly criticized Israel’s military campaign to oust Hamas from Gaza. The UN has warned that the campaign, which has displaced some 1.8 million of the enclave’s 2.3 million people, has created a humanitarian disaster. Hamas has asserted that some 16,000 Palestinians have been killed in war-related violence. |
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| | + | Hastings said on Monday, “Nowhere is safe in Gaza and there is nowhere left to go. |
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| | + | “The conditions required to deliver aid to the people of Gaza do not exist. If possible, an even more hellish scenario is about to unfold, one in which humanitarian operations may not be able to respond.”</small></blockquote> |
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| | + | Eli Cohen @elicoh1:<blockquote><small> |
| | + | We will no longer be silent in the face of the bias of the UN! |
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| | + | I decided to revoke the residence visa to Israel of the UN "humanitarian" coordinator Lynn Hastings. |
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| | + | Someone who did not condemn Hamas for the brutal massacre of 1,200 Israelis, for the kidnapping of babies and the elderly and for the horrific acts of abuse and rape, and for using the residents of Gaza as human shields, but instead condemns Israel, a democratic country that protects its citizens, cannot serve in the UN and cannot enter Israel!</small></blockquote></ref> |
| | + | ([https://twitter.com/elicoh1/status/1732153434902524371 Dec 5, 2023]).</ref> |
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| | ===UNRWA "Palestine"=== | | ===UNRWA "Palestine"=== |