AP:
Qatar and Saudi Arabia on Sunday condemned an Israeli parliamentary bill that seeks to label UNRWA, the main provider of aid for Palestinians in Gaza, a terrorist group, joining a growing number of nations opposed to the proposal.
The bill, which passed a preliminary vote in parliament last week, is the product of increasingly tense relations between Israel and the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. Israel has accused the agency of militant links, claiming that hundreds of its employees are members of militant groups, including some who allegedly participated in the Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel. [...]
The bill moving through parliament seeks to brand the agency a “terror group,” saying that the employees’ alleged involvement in the Hamas assault shows that “it is a terror organization that is no different from the Hamas terror organization.” The bill also seeks to cut diplomatic ties between Israel and the agency.
The bill passed the initial vote 42-6 and must go through committees and three other votes before becoming law.
I know UN peacekeepers and what not were involved in some scandals before. But has any other country declared an organization part of the UN to be a terrorist group, as a whole? There were a few countries with whom the UN was probably very unpopular at times, e.g. the UN technically invaded North Korea in the 1950s etc. (Although it was mostly US troops.) Have any such countries reacted with declaring the UN or parts thereof terrorist though?
