The Biden-Harris administration's Justice Department has argued in federal court that UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) employees who took part in the October 7 terrorist attack are immune from lawsuits.
The Justice Department made startling allegations in a lawsuit brought by relatives of attack victims in June, based on a report and UNRWA's own admissions that some Refugee Agency staff had aided or supported Hamas. Ta.
UNRWA has confirmed that nine of its staff may have taken part in the attack. One of the UNRWA personnel brought the bodies of the murdered Israelis back to Gaza. The agency has also been accused of indoctrinating Palestinians in general.
However, UNRWA told a federal court in the Southern District of New York that its employees enjoy immunity under the 1946 United Nations Convention on Privileges and Immunities and that the United Nations has not waived immunity.
According to the Jewish News Syndicate, the Department of Justice agreed that:
In its complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, the world organization argued that: The lawsuit should be dismissed,” Israel said. channel 12 It was reported on Saturday night.
The Biden administration is said to have echoed the United Nations' position regarding the lawsuit filed by the victims on October 7, and the Department of Justice stated in court that “the plaintiffs' complaint is a legal basis for claiming that the United Nations has waived its immunity.'' “It does not show that.”
“As the United Nations has not waived immunity in this matter, its subsidiary UNRWA retains full immunity and any action against UNRWA should be dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.'' the ministry said.
Jurist Eugene Kontorovich and Rabbi Mark Goldfeder claimed Wednesday's new york post The Ministry of Justice said there was no need to defend UNRWA's immunity and that the decision to intervene in the case was a policy choice.
[T]The United States has historically supported a broad interpretation of UN immunity, but despite a history of serious wrongdoing, UN agencies have not been structurally intertwined with US-designated terrorist groups or have committed large numbers of their staff. They have never committed mass atrocities.
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In 2019, Supreme Court Judgment The IOIA provides only international organizations with the same immunity from litigation that foreign governments enjoy under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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Under the FSIA, sovereign immunity does not extend to support for terrorism, and the president can designate “state sponsors'' of terrorism who can be accused of such acts, but that list includes Iran, currently a backer of Hamas. is also included.
They conclude that the Biden-Harris administration has decided not to link UNRWA to Hamas, even though the United States stopped funding UNRWA for that very reason. Then-President Donald Trump halted funding to UNRWA in 2018. President Joe Biden restored funding, including from previous years, upon taking office in 2021.
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