Meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in Ashdod Port, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani says his country will not work with UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.
“We don’t want to work with UNRWA and we condemn the use of UNRWA offices as a prison for Israeli hostages,” says Tajani.
The mother of freed hostage Emily Damari said that her daughter had been held at UNRWA facilities in Gaza.
Sa’ar says at the joint press conference that the UN Human Rights Council “acted in the most outrageous way possible.”
“They were biased, they were obsessive, you can say they were antisemites because they used double standards with regards to our state.”
Sa’ar announced this week that would no longer participate in the UNHRC, following the US’s withdrawal.
