Senior UN official loses post after praising cease fire

Ah, Those who call evil good And good evil; Who present darkness as light And light as darkness; Who present bitter as sweet And sweet as bitter!

Isaiah

5:

20

(the israel bible)

August 14, 2022

2 min read

Sarah Muscroft, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA), was removed from her office after tweeting her support of the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The tweet also criticized the PIJ for firing rockets that fell inside Gaza, killing Gazan civilians.

“Relieved to see a ceasefire agreed ending hostilities impacting both Palestinians and Israeli civilians,” Muscroft tweeted. “Such indiscriminate rocket fire of Islamic Jihad provoking Israeli retaliation is condemned. The safety of all civilians is paramount — the ceasefire must be upheld.”

Palestinian Islamic Jihad fried more than 1,1000 rockets at Israel between August 5-7. An IDF briefing about Operation Breaking Dawn revealed that one in five Islamic Jihad rockets, or a total of about 200, fell in Gaza. The Palestinians reported a total of 35 deaths of whom 26 were innocent bystanders. Of the 26, 11 were killed in Israeli airstrikes, and 15 were killed by Islamic Jihad rockets that failed to clear Gaza. 17 minors were reportedly killed in the hostilities. This means that PIJ rockets accounted for more Gazan deaths than IDF airstrikes.

Muscroft’s Twitter account has since been closed though she did post a retraction five days ago:

“One of my previous tweets was ill-informed and I have deleted it,” she tweeted. “I sincerely apologize for my poor judgement. All civilians – everywhere – must be able to live in peace.”
Her tweets were reposted by Che Papua but were masked as containing “potentially sensitive content.”

Emails to the senior UN official on Friday received an automatic reply saying Muscroft was “on annual leave.”

On Saturday, an OCHA spokesman in Geneva told The Times of Israel that Muscroft “will be assigned to a new role.

“OCHA has been present in the occupied Palestinian territory for the past 20 years, working to help meet humanitarian needs, guided by the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and humanity,” Jens Laerke said.

“Over two million people in the occupied Palestinian territory need assistance — they remain our only focus and priority.”

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