UNRWA Review: Israeli Cooperation and October 7 Evidence

How would you characterize the Israeli cooperation with you, given that, as you may have seen

today, the main takeaway from your report is Israel has yet to provide any evidence

for its allegations that UNRWA personnel were involved in the October 7th attack?

So how would you characterize that cooperation and this main takeaway?

Thank you.

Thank you.

I covered everybody when I said that we received very good cooperation from everywhere, including

Israel.

I could go in details who received us and so on and so forth, but I want to repeat that

we had an excellent cooperation from all sides.

Now, about one of the quotes – I couldn't read everything this morning, but one of the

quotes that have been issued does not respect, I think, the text of the report.

And we've written – and the beauty of writing reports is that you can refer to what's

written.

We've written that UNRWA has not received evidence by Israel, not that there is no evidence.

It's very different.

So please, again and again, refer to the content of the report and not to what you hear sometimes

about it.

I would really appreciate if you could base your comments and base your judgments on the

content and not on preconceived opinions.

You stated that Israel has given no evidence to UNRWA about their claims that any UNRWA

employees took part in October 7th.

But did you, during your investigation, ask Israel for evidence?

Thank you for this opportunity to have me repeating that there must be no confusion

between what we've been tasked for, which is assessing whether UNRWA does everything

in its power to ensure neutrality and address challenges, and what the OAS is in charge

of.

There are two separate missions.

So allegations regarding individuals, a difficult case, are in the scope of the OAS mission.

It is not the scope of our mandate.

And by the way, it is no surprise that Israel did not provide evidence to UNRWA, because

it doesn't owe this evidence during the investigation to UNRWA, but to the OAS.

And my understanding is that they have a better cooperation now than at the beginning, and

that the team will – their investigators will return there soon.

So this is separate, separate mission.