Israeli ambassador wants UN to cut funding for rights group
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Tel Aviv, Oct. 19, 2016 (dpa/NAN) Israeli Diplomat, Danny Danon plans to call for a suspension in funding for the B’tselem Human Rights group at a special UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday, the report said.
Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the UN that it was “no accident” that B’tselem, which documents alleged human rights violations against the Palestinians, had been invited to address the group at a special meeting last week.
According to the pro-Israel NGO Monitor, B’tselem received a total of nearly 115,000 dollars in 2016 from three UN-associated groups: UN Women, UNICEF and UN Development Programme.
Israel-based B’Tselem, along with Americans for Peace Now, had called on the council to take action against Israeli settlement activity, noting that it imperils the prospect of a two-state solution.
“The rights of Palestinians must be realised, the occupation must end, the UN Security Council must act and the time is now,” Hagai El-Ad, the Executive Director of B’Tselem, said. (dpa/NAN)
(Edited by Damilola Oyewole/Julius Enehikhuere)