Mr. Guterres has additionally requested UNRWA head, Philippe Lazzarini, to refer any staff discovered to have taken half in or “abetted what transpired” within the brutal assaults by Hamas and different Palestinian militants that day, “for potential legal prosecution.”
“The Secretary-Basic is horrified by this information,” Mr. Guterres’ Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, stated in a statement issued on Friday morning in New York, noting that the UN chief had been briefed on the allegations by the UNRWA Commissioner-Basic.
Pressing unbiased overview
An pressing and complete unbiased overview of UNRWA shall be performed, the assertion added.
The UNRWA chief stated info had been supplied by Israeli authorities of the alleged involvement of some company workers members.
“To guard the company’s capacity to ship humanitarian help, I’ve taken the choice to instantly terminate the contracts of those workers members and launch an investigation to be able to set up the reality directly,” Mr. Lazzarini said.
“Any UNRWA worker who was concerned in acts of terror shall be held accountable, together with by legal prosecution,” he added.
He reiterated UNRWA’s condemnation of the phobia assaults within the “strongest potential phrases” and referred to as once more for the rapid and unconditional launch of all Israeli hostages.
Betrayal of ‘basic values’
“These surprising allegations come as greater than two million individuals in Gaza rely on lifesaving help that the company has been offering because the battle started,” Mr. Lazzarini stated.
“Anybody who betrays the elemental values of the United Nations additionally betrays these whom we serve in Gaza, throughout the area and elsewhere around the globe.”
