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View all search resultsIndonesia condemns Israeli bill labeling UNRWA terror group
The bill seeking to label the UN body assisting Palestinian refugees as a terror group is part of Israel's systematic attempt to deny Palestine's right to sovereignty, Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi has said.
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A Palestinian woman walks past a damaged wall bearing the UNRWA logo at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (AFP/Eyad Baba)
Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi has condemned Israel’s parliamentary bill seeking to label the United Nations refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) as a terrorist group.
Through the bill, which passed a parliamentary vote in the Israeli parliament on May 29, Israel accuses the agency of having militant links and hundreds of its staff of being involved in the militant group Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7 of last year.
“The investigation has been done and such accusations were unproven,” Retno said during a meeting with House of Representatives Commission I overseeing foreign affairs in Jakarta on Wednesday.
She referred to an investigation launched by UNRWA in January after Israel made the claim that some staffers were linked to the Hamas assault.
The terrorist group label was part of Israel’s attempt to weaken the UN body systematically to turn the world’s attention away from the Palestinian refugees who were forced to flee their homes due to the war, the minister continued.
“If no one talks about the refugees, the fleeing Palestinians will be forced to stay in their current place now and the issue of returning to the homeland is diminished,” she said.
