Chart of 2015-2024 requests to meet with or engage UNRWA — all ignored
Date | UN Watch Attempts to Engage UNRWA | UNRWA Response |
August 23, 2015 | Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on UNRWA incitement | UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness attacks UN Watch |
September 3, 2015 | Report sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl | No response |
November 30, 2015 | Report sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl | No response |
February 2, 2017 | Report sent to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres | No response |
April 19, 2017 | Email to UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl requesting meeting | No response |
October 26, 2021 | Letter to UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini requesting direct dialogue | No response |
March 14, 2023 | Report sent to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UNRWA Commissioner-General Lazzarini | No response |
April 24, 2023 | Letter sent to UNRWA Commissioner-General Lazzarini requesting meeting | Response ignores meeting request |
April 27, 2023 | Hillel Neuer tags UNRWA chief Lazzarini in tweet requesting meeting | No response |
May 12, 2023 | UN Watch tags UNRWA Deputy Commissioner-General Leni Stenseth in tweet requesting meeting | No response |
May 15, 2023 | UN Watch tags UNRWA chief Lazzarini in tweet requesting a meeting | No response |
July 17, 2023 | Reply sent to UNRWA again requesting a meeting with UNRWA chief Lazzarini | No response |
February 23, 2024 | Hillel Neuer tags UNRWA chief Lazzarini in tweet requesting a debate at a time and place of Lazzarini’s choosing | No response |
March 19, 2024 | UNRWA representatives formally invited to participate in a hearing with Hillel Neuer at the European Parliament | UNRWA refused to appear |
April 9, 2024 | Report sent to the Independent Review Group on UNRWA Neutrality | No response |
June 20, 2024 | Hillel Neuer asks to meet with UNRWA chief Lazzarini during his address at the Dutch Parliament | No response |
June 24, 2024 | Report on UNRWA terrorist hand delivered to UNRWA chief Lazzarini and the UNRWA Advisory Commission | Lazzarini confirmed the report was received but did not respond further to it |
August 1, 2024 | Request sent to UNRWA chief Lazzarini to meet with Ayelet Samerano, the mother of an Israeli hostage who was kidnapped into Gaza by an UNRWA worker |
Meeting refused according to Swiss police |