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Initial reports blamed Israel for the blast in Southern Lebanon.
The United States has indicated that it will block the move in the UN Security Council.
Iran called the attack a “flagrant violation of fundamental norms and principles of international law”• Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack.
The draft resolution’s mention of the council’s intent to grant Palestinians full U.N. membership is likely a bridge too far for Washington.
Ramallah hopes the U.N. Security Council will make a decision at an April 18 meeting on the Middle East.
The report “did not even include the simple statement that UNRWA should fire or refrain from employing members of Hamas and other terrorist organizations,” Israel stated.
“Hamas can scream these numbers all they want, but it makes them no truer than if they were to repeatedly scream the earth was flat,” the human rights attorney Arsen Ostrovsky told JNS.
Asked if ISIS grievances equated to Russians in the way U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres talked about a Hamas rationale for killing Israelis, a spokesperson said that was “a bit of an oversimplification.”
An Israeli government official told JNS that the Biden administration contacted Jerusalem to reschedule.
“I thought the U.S. decision in the Security Council was a very, very bad move,” the Israeli prime minister told Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) in Jerusalem.
The agency can pay March and April salaries after some countries resume support.
The pressure from Jerusalem, Republicans and some Democrats is supposed to create a counterweight that will force Biden to publicly support Israel.
