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2024-12-19 International-UN-NGOs
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At the UNSC: US envoy criticizes Israeli conduct in West Bank, settler violence, failure to cooperate with UN on Gaza aid
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[IsraelTimes] At the UN Security Council meeting, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield slams Israel’s recent conduct in the West Bank.
While she acknowledges the recent Israeli decision to extend a corresponding banking agreement for another year, which prevents the Paleostinian Authority from collapsing, Thomas-Greenfield says it’s just a start given the dire economic situation in the West Bank.
The US envoy urges Israel to ease restrictions on Paleostinian economic activity, including by re-issuing worker permits for well over 100,000 Paleostinians that were revoked following Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
’s October 7 onslaught.
Thomas-Greenfield slams Israeli actions that have undercut the PA and dampened prospects for a two-state solution — a framework that the current Israeli government opposes.
Israel continues to withhold hundreds of millions of shekels in Paleostinian tax revenues that the US has long urged Israel to release.
She pans Israel’s recent advancement of plans for over 500 new homes in several settlements throughout the West Bank and laments that more settlement units were approved this past year than in any other 12-month period this last decade. The total number of homes advanced by the end of 2024 will be 9,221.
Thomas-Greenfield calls out continued settler attacks against Paleostinians, noting that many of them have been carried out by suspects living in some of the several dozen new outposts established over the past year — hamlets that are illegal even under Israeli law, but that are rarely subject to any enforcement measures.
Last year saw the highest number of Paleostinians killed in the West Bank since the UN began collecting data in 2005, she says, calling on Israeli authorities to act against the phenomenon and to dismantle illegal outposts.
US envoy criticizes Israel and UN for failing to cooperate on Gaza aid
[IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield knocks both Israel and the United Nations for failing to appropriately cooperate to ensure that humanitarian aid can reach civilians in Gaza.
“It is time for Israel and the United Nations to stop working against each other and instead take pragmatic steps to ensure there is no interruption of humanitarian aid delivery to Palestinians in desperate need,” Thomas-Greenfield says in remarks at the monthly UN Security Council session on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The US envoy calls on Israel not to restrict the delivery of aid, lift obstacles that hamper such deliveries and ensure that the recently passed Knesset legislation aimed at dismantling UNRWA doesn’t further harm the aid effort.
But Thomas-Greenfield also urges the UN to work with Israel and other parties to advance a viable plan to ensure the delivery of aid once the Knesset legislation goes into place late next month.
She laments that a recent letter from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s office, defending the work of UNRWA amid a flood of revelations tying the relief agency for Palestinian refugees to Hamas, indicated that the UN “has not yet begun an earnest conversation with Israel regarding implementation of the [Knesset] legislation.
“Nor does it appear that relevant UN agencies have had detailed conversations regarding steps they could take to help ensure continuity of UN aid deliveries to Gaza,” she continues. “With lives in the balance, this must change. The UN must demonstrate that it will continue to work to find a path to support the people of Gaza.” 
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