Israel has attacked the UN (and UNRWA in particular) both diplomatically and militarily during the 2023-2024 genocide. Israel alleged that UNRWA aided the October 7th attack, or that about a dozen of its members did. They provided no evidence of this. The IDF has also razed some UN buildings and used other UN buildings as bases for the tanks.
The effort to frame UNRWA as a "terrorist organization" was both to legitimize its attacks on UNRWA infrastructure in the Gaza strip and to cause diplomatic outrage. In the wake of Israel's allegations against UNRWA, the USA and much of Europe suspended funds to the organization. As UNRWA is the largest organization provided aid to the Gaza strip, it was Israel's goal to extend the humanitarian crisis on the Palestinian people. Many nations have since resumed funding UNRWA, but the USA passed a budget stating that they would not resume funding it until 2025.
Within Gaza, the IDF destroys and uses UN buildings. One video posted by a soldier shows machine guns and should fired rockets being leveled at an empty UNRWA building. Another video shows the destruction of a UN school using anti-tank mines that were planted inside. More footage emerged of a Merkava tank firing on an empty UN building. A soldier on Facebook posted a photo of Palestinian captives stripped and held in the courtyard of a UN building. Many more photos exist of tanks stationed in UN building courtyards, apparently being used as IDF bases.
The IDF has total disdain for the UN, yet in the wake of the Iranian retaliation for the Damascus consulate bombing, they cried for condemnation from the UN. It is Israel's state policy to defy and vilify the United Nations. In this and many other ways Israel is a rouge state worthy of sanctions at the very least.
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