The Trump Department of Justice has said that an agency under the United Nations can host the United States on its alleged participation with Hamas in the horrible October 7, 2023, attacks in Israel where almost 1,200 people were sacrificed, including more than 30 Americans.
In a document presented in a Federal Court in New York on Thursday, the Department of Justice said that UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine) does not have the right to immunity, opening enhanced and massive demand.
The families of more than 100 victims of the terrorist attack led by Hamas claim $ 1 billion in damages for UNRWA damage, stating that the UN agency attended and abet the attack of the terrorist group. The UNRWA coordinates almost all help to Gaza and is considered a UN affiliate, but operates independently.
Life under Hamas in Gaza’s strip is exhibited by the locals living there in a new project where some locals discussed life under the iron coated grip of the terrorist group. (Reuters)
Victims of the Massacre Archive demand on October 7 against Unrwa for helping Hamas terrorists
The demand, which was filed last June in the Southern New York district, alleges that Unrwa helped Hamas to build the terrorist unscrew and withas withas withas withas withas withas withas withas tasas withas tasas withas tasas withas tasas withas tasas withas tas withas Rates for weapons, explosives and other terrorist material. “
More than $ 1 billion of the New York bank account of UNRWA in Manhattan participated in allegedly benefiting the terrorist organization designated by the United States Hamas, said the demand. The demand also generates the agency to allow tunnels and command centers to be built under their sites.
Philippe Lazzarini, the Chief of Unrwa, was appointed as one of the defendants.
Memorials at the Hamas terrorist attack site on October 7 against the Supernova Music Festival near Kibbutz Re’IM, Israel, on May 27, 2024. (Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
The Department of Justice said Thorsday that, according to the law, UNRWA is not considered part of the central structure of the United Nations, such as its main or subsidiary organs, and is considered more similar to a “specialized agency” that the United States never agreed to grant.
Therefore, UNRWA does not qualify for diplomatic immunity under US law and must respond to demand.
“The complaint in this case alleges atrocious conduct by Unrwa and its officers,” says the April 24 document.
Hamas’ terrorists returned to the Gaza Strip with Shani Louk’s body, a double German and Israeli citizen, on Saturday, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmud)
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“Of course, such accusations are only the first step in a long path, where the plaintiffs must prove what they have alleged. The government believes that accusations in the US courts must respond.
It marks a drastic reversal of the position of the justice departments of the Biden era in October, where he argued that UNRWA was protected by international legal immunity as part of the broader system of the United Nations.
The movement of the Department of Justice occurs weekly after Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, introduced legislation that would allow US victims of terrorist groups to hold the organizations that finance those responsible groups in a court of justice. Specifically, it would eliminate the immunity of Unrwa and allow US victims of terrorism, such as those attacked on October 7, to sue Unrwa and its workers in the US courts.
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The bill essentially reintroduced the limiting immunity to help the sponsors of the law of lethal (responsible) extremism, which is similar to a bill that introduced into the door of the last congress.
The Senator of the Texas Republican Party, Ted Cruz, will send a letter to Ag Merrick Garland this week asking the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into UNSWA USA. (Getty images)
The new position of the Department of Justice means that the central objective of the responsible Cruz act partially achieves without legilation, although the responsible act permanently encodes this position without immunity.
After revelations about UNRWA workers who participate in the October 7 slaughter, the United States suspended its aid to UNRWA. Before the suspension, the United States was the largest individual donor in Unrwa.
Rachel Wolf of Fox News contributed to this report.
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