The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the European Union, Joseph Burrell, said yesterday (Monday) at a closing hearing in Brussels that Israel has not presented solid evidence about UNRWA's involvement in terrorism. in UNRA and even increase it.
As you may recall, the union officially announced last week that during the month of February it will refrain from transferring support to UNRA until the completion of the investigations conducted by the agency regarding the question of the involvement of its personnel in the Simchat Torah massacre
. "Israel Hayom" has learned that a debate developed between the representatives of the 27 countries that lasted for two and a half hours regarding UNRA.
A long list of countries claimed that the information revealed about UNRA is serious and that it should be taken very seriously. Among the countries that sided with the critical position, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania.
On the other hand, Burrell and other representatives of Spain, Belgium and Damona argued that funding for UNRWA should be continued and even increased, because of the funding difficulties the agency will suffer, after most of the donor countries announced the suspension of their support for it.
In the report that reached the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was also stated that Burrell claimed "that publications about the involvement of UNRWA and its personnel in the massacre should be treated with caution" and that "it is an Israeli campaign and an attempt to 'kill' the agency."
The European Union must not cooperate with this." To emphasize his support for UNRWA, Burrell even invited the agency's Secretary General Felipe Lazarni to participate in the meeting of the European Union's development ministers next week. He added that the results of the UN's internal review must be awaited. .
In a public record he published, Burrell wrote that "the accusations against the UNRA teams that participated in the massacre are serious and anyone responsible should be punished.
However, UNRA responded immediately and the contracts of the accused staff members were canceled. An investigation by the United Nations Office for Internal Oversight Services is underway." Europe's senior diplomat also wrote that "UNRA is an irreplaceable body of life-saving aid to the Palestinians. The funds for UNRA will be both disproportionate and dangerous.
Ending UNRWA's operations would pose a serious risk to regional stability. The UN agency not only provides essential services in war-torn Gaza, it also provides health, education and other essential services to approximately 5.6 million Palestinian refugees."
The words of the European senior official come against the background of the decisions of the political echelon and the IDF, which was revealed in "Israel Hayom", not to publish the information they know about UNRA.
As was published in Israel today, AMN, the Shin Bet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been collecting information about UNRA's involvement in terrorism since the massacre, but to this day they refuse to publish it.
In "Israel Today" it was further revealed that Israel is indeed telling the international community that UNRA must be replaced in the future. However, the Israeli representatives add that despite the agency's well-known cooperation with Hamas during the war, and its involvement in terrorism for many years, it currently has no replacement. .
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