| UN Lawyer Elinor
Hammarskjöld Silent as US Says
UNRWA Is Not Immune & SG
Bans Press
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
/ UN
GATE,
April 28 - For the UN's role
in Hamas' October 7 attacks,
non-US citizen plaintiffs and
estates on June 24 filed a
lawsuit in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York against
UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini,
Pierre Krahenbuhl, Filippo
Grandi, Leni Stenseth, Sandra
Mitchel, Margot Ellis and
Greta Gunnarsdottir.
The UN's
new legal counsel, Elinor
Hammarskjöld, has had nothing
to say about this lawsuit
against the UN - but she did
give a speech name-checking
UNRWA as a UN agency at the
ICJ on April 28. Nor has she
said anything about her boss
Antonio Guterres banning the
Press that asks about the suit
against UNRWA.
Inner City
Press, which daily cover the
SDNY court in-person and the
UN from outside the gate,
banned from entry by SG
Antonio Guterres, asked
Guterres' spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming about the lawsuit,
without any response per
usual.
Nor have they
responded to Inner City Press'
June 19 application
to enter the UN to ask these
questions. And Elinor
Hammarskjöld has done nothing,
despite the resonant name she
was apparently hired by
Guterres for, as a fig leaf.
On February 18,
the (new) SDNY wrote in, "The
Government is currently
reviewing the views." Letter
on Inner City Press'
DocumentCloud here
On April 17 DOJ
wrote in asking for one more
week to finalize. Inner City
Press, still banned from the
UN by Antonio Guterres,
tweeted it.
On April 24 the
Administration wrote in that
it "has since reevaluated that
position, and now concludes
UNRWA is not immune from this
litigation. Nor are the bulk
of other defendants" - 10 page
filing on DocumentCloud here.
The UNRWA case is
ESTATE OF TAMAR KEDEM SIMAN
TOV, BY HEIR-AT-LAW GAD KEDEM
v. UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND
WORKS AGENCY (UNRWA) et al.,
24-cv-04765 (Torres)
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