The Commissioner-Common says the Israeli authorities has launched a smear marketing campaign in opposition to the UN company.
The UN company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has accused the Israeli authorities of “shopping for adverts on Google to forestall customers from donating” to the company.
UNRWA Commissioner-Common Philippe Lazzarini mentioned in a publish on X that Israel’s makes an attempt to smear the company injury its status and put the lives of its employees in danger.
“These deliberate efforts to unfold misinformation must be stopped and investigated,” Lazzarini wrote on Saturday, calling for extra rules for firms, together with social media platforms, to fight misinformation and hate speech.
The unfold of misinformation and disinformation continues for use as a weapon within the conflict on #Loop.
As a part of its marketing campaign to undermine and discredit @UNRWAThe Israeli authorities has been shopping for adverts on @Google block customers from donating to the Company + undertake a…
—Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) August 31, 2024
“The unfold of misinformation and disinformation continues for use as a weapon within the conflict in Gaza,” he wrote.
Israel has campaigned for years in opposition to UNRWA, the principle group offering humanitarian assist to Palestinians within the occupied Palestinian territory and offering providers to Palestinian refugees in different nations since 1949, alleging it has connections to “terrorists” and pushing for its closure.
Final month, the UN denounced an Israeli authorities spokesman after he described Lazzarini as a “terrorist sympathiser”.
David Mencer had attacked Lazzarini in a videotaped speech, claiming the company had been deeply infiltrated by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The UN known as the feedback “reprehensible” and warned that they endangered Lazzarini’s security.
Earlier this 12 months, Israel claimed a number of the company’s employees took half within the Hamas-led Oct. 7 assaults on Israel, prompting greater than a dozen worldwide donors to droop their help.
A UN-authorized impartial evaluation concluded that Israel had failed to supply credible proof for its allegations and most donors have since restored funding.
Israeli strikes in Gaza have steadily focused UNRWA services, killing 212 of its employees and affecting at the least 70 % of its faculties, in accordance with the group.
At the very least 40,691 folks have been killed and 94,060 wounded in Israel’s conflict on Gaza, in accordance with the Gaza Well being Ministry. At the very least 1,139 folks have been killed in Hamas-led assaults on Israel, in accordance with an Al Jazeera tally based mostly on official Israeli statistics.
