Fox News reported yesterday that an internal United Nations audit of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Gaza found that UNDP “allowed at least five non-staff contract employees to handle ‘core’ procurement processes that only staffers are supposed to handle, including those for ordering up ‘significant’ civil construction activities.” The...
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William Schabas, who was appointed Monday by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to head an investigation into Israel’s conduct during Operation Protective Edge, argued in a blog post last year that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government would not constitute a war crime. Schabas argued...
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The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) today appointed a commission to investigate the commission of war crimes during Operation Protective Edge. Many of the commission’s members have a history of flagrantly anti-Israel statements. According to the UN’s announcement: In a statement released this afternoon, the Council’s President, Ambassador Baudelaire Ndong...
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Today was the thirty fourth day of Operation Protective Edge. Good title: "Hamas could have chosen peace. Instead, it made Gaza suffer" | http://t.co/2OWziqFkiX — Mike Doran (@Doranimated) August 10, 2014 Once again Israel has agreed to a seventy two hour ceasefire. This one is to start at midnight tonight....
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Writing Friday in The Wall Street Journal, Claudia Rosett, a journalist in residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, takes United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to task for decrying the “suffering” in Gaza when it is one of his organization’s agencies, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is...
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In an analysis published yesterday, Anthony Reuben, head of statistics for BBC News, cautioned against accepting Gaza casualty figures at face value. Working from figures from the United Nations, Reuben observes: So there were 216 members of armed groups killed, and another 725 men who were civilians. Among civilians, more...
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The Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times, Jodi Rudoren, reported on a recent analysis of the known Palestinian fatalities in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge. According to their analasys based on Palestinian Health Ministry figures, only 34 percent of fatalities comprised women, underage children, and the elderly. Of...
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a strong condemnation on August 4 of a major increase in anti-Semitic acts worldwide since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s attempt to end Hamas’ rocket fire and terror attacks. “Ban Ki-moon has deplored the recent upsurge in anti-Semitic attacks, particularly in Europe, in connection...
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Today was the twenty-seventh day of Operation Protective Edge and the sixteenth day of ground operations in Gaza. More proof that the IDF is seriously good at social media — and that they are fighting an evil, despicable enemy. pic.twitter.com/BhkPhMCPrw — Ken Gardner (@kesgardner) August 4, 2014 At a time...
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Jonathan Kay, an editor at Canada’s National Post and a visiting fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, observed in an article published Friday that compared to previous wars against Palestinian terrorists since 2002, Israel seem less isolated internationally as it conducts Operation Protective Edge to fight Hamas’ terror infrastructure. Kay notes that...
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