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Since it launched its genocidal war against the Palestinian people, Israel has crossed many red lines.

Neither the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the supreme judicial organ of the United Nations, to stop its “plausible” genocide in Gaza, nor the damning advisory opinion of the same court ordering it to end its illegal occupation of Palestine and apartheid policies against the Palestinians gave Israel pause. The request of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant be issued did not have much effect on its conduct either. In fact, not even the gathering criticisms of some of its allies is making Israel rethink its murderous apartheid and genocidal policies.

This latest move follows last January’s stunt – which worked, at least initially – where Israel accused 12 UNRWA workers of having participated in the October 7 attack by Hamas and other Palestinian groups against it and alleged widespread collusion between the UN agency and Hamas.

The UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres responded to the accusation by hastily and credulously firing all UN staff members named by Israel on the basis of allegation made without any evidence. The decision seemingly encouraged some Western donors to suspend their funding of the humanitarian agency employing some 30,000 staff and mandated by the General Assembly to provide essential services to millions of Palestinian refugees.

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