Je n'ai jamais été intéressé ni voté pour l'Eurovision. Mais voir des milliers de personnes déverser leur haine et leur antisémitisme sur une jeune Israélienne de 20 ans, qui venait chanter en hommage aux victimes du 7 octobre, me choque. Ce n'est pas ainsi qu'on libère la Palestine. Soutenir une cause ne justifie pas la haine. La majorité silencieuse en Europe a parlé haut et fort, donnant 12 points à #EdenGolan, malgré les 0 points des jurys. Un message puissant contre l'antisémitisme et la haine.
Face à la haine, seule, cette jeune courageuse est restée digne et souriante. Bravo à la Suisse, vainqueur du concours, et félicitations à @Slimaneoff.
#Eurovision #Paix
Unreal: UNRWA is acting as a human shield for Hamas
Never in history has a humanitarian agency refused to evacuate a war zone. Under the Geneva Conventions precaution principle, a party can urge civilians to leave a combat area. UNRWA is putting the lives of Gazans in danger.
Head of UNRWA probe rejects @guardian headline, says she had “excellent cooperation” with Israel; her mandate had nothing to do with identifying UNRWA terrorists, Israel is sharing info with separate UN inquiry run by OIOS.
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Q: How would you characterize the Israeli cooperation with you, given that as you may have seen today, the main takeaway from your report is Israel has yet to provide any evidence for its allegations that UNRWA personnel were involved in the October 7th attack. So how would you characterize that cooperation and this main takeaway?
Catherine Colonna: Thank you. I covered everybody when I said that we received very good cooperation from everywhere, including Israel. I could go in details who received us and so on and so forth, but I want to repeat that we had an excellent cooperation from all sides.
Now about one of the quotes—I couldn't read everything this morning—but one of the quotes that have been issued does not respect, I think, the text of the report. We have written – and the beauty of writing reports is that you can refer to what's written—we've written that UNRWA has not received evidence by Israel, not that there is no evidence. It's very different.
So please, again and again, refer to the content of the report and not to what you hear sometimes about it. I would really appreciate if you could base your comments and base your judgments on the content and not on preconceived opinions.
Q: You stated that Israel has given no evidence to UNRWA about their claims that any UNRWA employees took part in October 7th, but did you during your investigation ask Israel for evidence?
Catherine Colonna: Thank you for this opportunity to have me repeating that there must be no confusion between what we've been tasked for, which is assessing whether UNRWA does everything in its power to ensure neutrality and address challenges, etc., and what the OIOS is in charge of. There are two separate missions. So allegations regarding individuals, a difficult case, are in the scope of the OIOS mission. It is not the scope of our mandate.
And by the way, it is no surprise that Israel did not provide evidence to UNRWA because it doesn't owe this evidence during the investigation to UNRWA, but to the OIOS.
And my understanding is that they have a better cooperation now than at the beginning, and that the team will, their investigators will return there soon. So this is a separate, separate mission.
@DrTedros Leaders of international organisations should condemn the use of hospitals by terrorist organisations, the holding of hostages in medical facilities and using patients as human shields.
Not a big ask. 👆
No words, indeed. You and your UNRWA still refuse to utter one word about Hamas, the genocidal terrorists who started the war six months ago by massacring, mutilating, raping, torturing and kidnapping thousands of Israeli men, women and children. Top UNRWA officials are Hamas. 🧵
You allowed Hamas to militarize Gaza’s hospitals right under your nose. You didn’t say a word as they built military tunnels under them, fired RPGs out of them, and held hostages in them.
Hamas turned hospitals into military bases in violation of IHL.
This is on you.
Degrees from Oxford and Cambridge, five years as a TV anchor, two years as a presidential advisor.
@mrjamesob: “No background.”
If he can't be bothered to check @EylonALevy’s LinkedIn, it makes sense that he would parrot Hamas talking points without bothering to do a simple fact-check.
I know it’s inconvenient to the narrative, but the contents of 300 aid trucks are sitting on the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing waiting for the UN to pick it up. But why take responsibility for your failure when you can blame Israel instead?
The Commissioner-General for the Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini has announced the Termination of 15 of its Staff Members that they were notified by the Israeli Government today likely Participated in the October 7th Massacre alongside Hamas against Southern Israel; he further stated that they have launched an Investigation into their Roles that will lead to Consequences and possible Criminal Prosecution.
Hamas has been holding women, elderly people, children hostage for more than 5 weeks. We demand the immediate, unconditional release of all hostages!
Israel has the right and the duty to defend itself. Humanitarian pauses and the protection of civilians are highly important.