“Israel operates in a climate of absolute impunity,” says Craig Mokhiber, a former senior UN official.
Since the start of the Israeli war against Gaza, the United Nations has been under pressure. More than 85 percent of Gaza’s population is currently homeless and living in dire conditions, while the UN remains in political impasse.
Three weeks after the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, the former director of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Craig Mokibher, resigned from his post, protesting that the UN was “failing” to his duty to prevent what he called a “textbook case of genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza. He also accused the United States and most of Europe of being complicit.
So, is the UN failing in its duty to prevent the massacre in Gaza? And what are the challenges for the future of Palestine?
On In the front This week, Marc Lamont Hill discusses the UN’s role in Israel’s war on Gaza with Craig Mokhiber, the former director of the New York office of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.