UNRWA to BBC: “Use the Words ‘Israeli Occupation’ in Coverage of Christmas in Bethlehem”

...Notably, Gunness did not ask BBC to use the words “murder, persecution and ethnic cleansing of Christians in Palestinian areas and throughout the Middle East,”

Hillel Neuer..
Times of Israel..
25 December '15..





I urge U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power to condemn the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) for breaching its neutrality promise under the 2015 UNRWA-U.S. Framework for Cooperation after spokesman Chris Gunness today urged the BBC to politicize its news coverage of Christmas by using the words “Israeli occupation.”

 

Chris Gunness‏@ChrisGunness

Demand @BBCNews use the words #IsraeliOccupation in its coverage of #Christmas in #Bethlehem. Amazing lack of context needs correction RT

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1:28 AM - 25 Dec 2015

Notably, Gunness did not ask BBC to use the words “murder, persecution and ethnic cleansing of Christians in Palestinian areas and throughout the Middle East,” as documented before the UN in compelling testimony by Father Gabriel Naddaf, who noted that “Israel is the only Mideast country not persecuting Christians.” Those words do not interest UNRWA or Gunness.

Ambassador Power should also condemn UNRWA for violating UN resolution 46/182 (1991), by which UNRWA is obliged to provide humanitarian services in accordance with the principles of “neutrality and impartiality.”


Gunness has also insisted that Palestinian knife attacks against Jews “all have a context.”

Father Naddaf at the UN:



Link: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/unrwa-to-bbc-use-the-words-israeli-occupation-in-coverage-of-christmas-in-bethlehem/

Hillel Neuer is executive director of UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

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