In its inimitable way, the UN continues to invert the truth on anything to do with Israel. Based on the concept of attack being the best form of defense, a Jordanian national and U.N. special rapporteur manages to avoid condemning Hamas for the atrocities committed on Oct 7th.
This report without any credible sources attributed to the claims gives food to the anti-Semitic activists
The following analysis is by Mike Wagenheim, JNS
Another United Nations special rapporteur is using her platform to deny
terrorist attacks against Israel.
Reem Alsalem, a Jordanian national and U.N. special rapporteur on
violence against women and girls, is an author of a Feb. 19 report listing
alleged abuses by Israel against Palestinian women and girls, including reports
of “multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched
by male Israeli army officers.”
It adds that “at least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly
raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence.”
The report also alleges that the Israel Defense Forces kidnapped
Palestinian babies.
In an interview on an Israeli news program, Alsalem refused to detail even the most basic of
information about the accusations, including the identity of the accuser
or accusers, that she called “reasonably credible.”
Israeli diplomatic officials vigorously dispute the accusations and
believe the information in Alsalem’s report originated with Euro-Med Monitor, a
virulently anti-Israel NGO operating under the human rights banner and headed
by Richard Falk.
Falk is a noted conspiracy theorist and former U.N. special rapporteur,
who was deported from Israel in 2008 after arriving to purportedly investigate
Israeli crimes.
Euro-Med Monitor published its
own similar report in late February.
Falk’s appointment to the U.N.
position was controversial, given his extensive history of anti-Israel
rhetoric.
Alsalem refused to admit that
Hamas carried out sexual violence on Oct. 7, saying that she had not received
the information necessary to carry out her work. She made that claim despite an
extensive fact-finding mission and report released this week by Pramila Patten,
the U.N. secretary-general’s special representative on sexual violence in
conflict.
The report found “clear and convincing information” of sexual violence
carried out against hostages in Gaza and “reasonable grounds” to believe
Israeli women were raped at three separate locations on Oct. 7.
“We cannot rely only on digital material or material produced online or
by the media,” said Alsalem when asked if she watched Hamas’s extensive video
documentation of its Oct. 7 terrorist acts, which are widely available for
viewing.
“I’m not a technical expert on videos, so I on my own will not be able to
assess those videos. I will also need to seek technical expertise,” Alsalem
said.
She intimated that she either calls into question the authenticity of
footage of Hamas’s Oct. 7 crimes—much of it taken from the GoPro cameras by
Hamas terrorists themselves—or that she is incapable of locating and playing
videos online without expert assistance.
Pressed as to whether she believes Israeli women had been raped on Oct.
7, Alsalem would only allow: “It may have happened, indeed.”
She also initially denied that
Hamas and Hezbollah have launched regular missile attacks during the current
war. The United Nations has documented those attacks.
“At this point, I have not seen that, no,” Alsalem said.
She then conceded, when pressed, “I have seen missile attacks.”
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