Rob Schmitz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
For days, there have been discussions over allowing outside teams into Gaza to help recover the remaining 13 deceased Israeli hostages as well as dead Palestinians under the rubble.
Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
After touring the center, established as part of President Trump's peace plan, Rubio called the coordination of the ceasefire in Gaza an historic mission, saying Washington and its international partners are working to sustain the truce, deliver aid, and pave the way for a stabilization force to enter the territory.
When asked about the role of the United Nations, Rubio called the U.N.
's Relief and Work Agency for the Palestinian Territories a, quote, subsidiary of Hamas, echoing the Israeli government's criticism of the agency, an opinion the U.N.
's highest court this week rejected.
Rubio said it wouldn't be allowed to work in Gaza, but that other U.N.
Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The International Court of Justice's president, Yuji Iwasawa, took more than an hour to read the court's opinion that Israel, because it exercises a degree of control over Gaza, is deemed by the Geneva Convention an occupying power.
As such, the court reasoned Israel is bound by the convention's law of occupation, which states that an occupying power must provide humanitarian aid to the civilians under its occupation, in this case, Gazans.
The court went further, saying Israel as an occupying power may never invoke reasons of security to justify the suspension of humanitarian aid and that the population of Gaza has been inadequately supplied by Israel.
The court also said the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or UNRWA, has not violated any laws as Israel has claimed.
Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The International Court of Justice's president, Yuji Iwasawa, took more than an hour to read the court's opinion that Israel, because it exercises a degree of control over Gaza, is deemed by the Geneva Convention an occupying power.
As such, the court reasoned Israel is bound by the convention's law of occupation, which states that an occupying power must provide humanitarian aid to the civilians under its occupation, in this case, Gazans.
The court went further, saying Israel as an occupying power may never invoke reasons of security to justify the suspension of humanitarian aid and that the population of Gaza has been inadequately supplied by Israel.
The court also said the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or UNRWA, has not violated any laws as Israel has claimed.
Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Israel has identified the body of Tal Haimi, who was 42 years old when he was killed defending his kibbutz two years ago against Hamas militants, who then took his body into Gaza.