Israel may cut off ties with OCHA if blacklisted by UN, Erdan warns

Israel may break ties with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) if it is blacklisted for treating Palestinian children, Israel’s ambassador Gilad Erdan told jerusalem post annual conference on Monday

Erdan said, “There are agencies that are active in our region such as OCHA which is in charge of providing humanitarian aid to the Palestinians.”

“Whenever they are required to report and provide data, they distort reality. They take for granted whatever the Palestinian Ministry of Health reports. Each We report terrorist attacksEven throwing stones and throwing Molotov cocktails, they ignore it.

Erdan alleged that OCHA had not established a verification mechanism for the information provided by Israel.

“We cannot continue to cooperate with them while they make such perverse supplies to member states in the UNSC [reality], They portray a different reality from the reality on the ground.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan at the Jerusalem Post 2023 Annual Conference in New York on June 5, 2023 (Credit: Mark Israel Salem / The Jerusalem Post)

Arden says government should stop giving visas to UN workers

Erden said, “My recommendation to our government is to stop issuing visas to new UN workers coming to Israel.”

He spoke about his role during an interview conducted by Senior Contributing Editor and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov defend your country Against anti-Israel bias at the United Nations in New York, in particular, his efforts to prevent Israel’s inclusion on the blacklist attached to the organization’s annual report on children in armed conflict written by the office of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Ardern said that in situations like this, including this one, he becomes the aggressor and tries to exact a heavy price.

“I say to the organizations of the United Nations and the Secretary-General that if you are going to make such a terrible mistake” and “compare our moral army with a terrorist organization, then the United Nations will have to pay a heavy price.”

Erdan warned, “Israel will have to end some of its ties and cooperation with UN agencies.”