Controversial decision: UNRA is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

UNRA, the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres are among the list of candidates to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced today (Thursday). In total, 286 individuals and organizations are nominated for this year’s prize, among them the opposition figure Russian Alexei Navalny and Ukrainian President Zelensky.The award committee is expected to announce its selection of a candidate next Friday, October 11, 2024. It is possible that no award winner will be chosen at all, this, against the background of the war in Israel, the fighting in Ukraine which has entered its third year and the battles in Sudan. However, the wars may cause the award committee to choose a humanitarian organization as the award winner.

“As an organization that works for Palestinian citizens who are experiencing the suffering of the war in Gaza, UNRA are definitely potential candidates for winning,” he explained Henrik Ordel, Director of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. However, such a choice would also be controversial – Against the background of the involvement of the organization’s operatives in terrorist attacks against Israel. A few countries stopped funding the organization, but most donors returned to giving it budgets. An internal investigation by the United Nations revealed that nine members of the organization may have been involved in terrorist activities.

At the beginning of the year, we published in the “Main Edition” the “UNRA files” – a document that incriminates about a dozen employees of the organization, who at the same time as working for the agency were active in Hamas – and some of them even participated in the Sheva massacre in October. Those employees took an active part in terrorist acts against Israel and at the same time served as teachers and social workers in UNRA “A. Israel handed over the information from the incriminating case to the countries that fund the relief agency.

Philip Lazzarini, who heads UNRWA, is also a candidate to receive the Nobel Prize. Ayelet Samarno, the mother of the late Yonatan Samarno, who was kidnapped from the party in Ra’i and his body is kept in a strip, demonstrated in front of Lazzarini about two months ago. “Why are you silent?” she asked him, against the background of the evidence that a UNRA employee kidnapped her son’s body. Another candidate whose name was included is UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who was announced yesterday that his entry into Israel will be banned due to being an “undesirable personality”.