  {"id":312571,"date":"2025-10-23T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=312571"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:31:43","slug":"unrwa-statement-23oct25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-23oct25\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Commissioner-General on ICJ: The court stressed that UNRWA is the key humanitarian actor with a \u201cunique and sustained connection\u201d to the occupied Palestinian territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>23 October 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s unambiguous and near unanimous ruling by the International Court of Justice stated that claims about UNRWA being infiltrated by Hamas are not substantiated, nor are allegations that UNRWA is not a neutral organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The court also stressed that UNRWA is the key humanitarian actor with a \u201cunique and sustained connection\u201d to the occupied Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p>I urge donors, all those with influence to facilitate and support the Agency&#8217;s efforts to respond to the dire humanitarian conditions in Gaza and expand its critical public health and education services.<\/p>\n<p>Time to bring in the huge amounts of food and other life-saving supplies on standby since March in Egypt and Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 23 October 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) Yesterday&#8217;s unambiguous and near unanimous ruling by the International Court of Justice stated that claims about UNRWA being infiltrated by Hamas are not substantiated, nor are allegations that UNRWA is not a neutral organisation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-23oct25\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6978,1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1945,2057,2005,1741,6891],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-312571","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-social-media-post","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-food","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-unrwa","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/312571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/312571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312573,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/312571\/revisions\/312573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=312571"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=312571"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=312571"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=312571"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=312571"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=312571"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=312571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}