Republican US Senator Jim Risch from Idaho led senators of the International Relations Committee in sending a letter to the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross (ICRC), the Committee introduced on Monday. The letter was written so as to request a reconsideration of Pierre Krahenbuhl’s appointment as director common on account of his earlier mismanagement of UNRWA, which he ran between 2014 and 2019.
The senators who signed the letter embrace Senators Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican; Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi Republican; Eric Schmitt, Missouri Republican; Rick Scott, Florida Republican; Pete Ricketts, Nebraska Republican; John Kennedy, Louisiana Republican; Mike Braun, Indiana Republican; John Boozman, Arkansas Republican; Mike Crapo, Idaho Republican; Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican; Steve Daines, Montana Republican; Thom Tillis, North Carolina Republican; Todd Younger, Indiana Republica; John Cornyn, Texas Republican; Invoice Cassidy Louisiana Republican; and Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican.
Krahenbuhl was compelled to give up UNRWA in 2019 in gentle of an inner ethics report that charged him with an alleged sexual affair together with his chief advisor throughout world journeys, abuse of energy, and corruption, which, on the time, triggered Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and New Zealand to freeze funding, in line with NGO, UN Watch. The allegations had been corroborated by a Could 2021 report by Geneva’s Le Temps.
Based on Hillel Neuer, the director of UN Watch, along with his corruption and mismanagement, “Krahenbuhl promoted a false narrative that he was pushed out by a Trump-Israel-Jewish cabal,” he wrote on his X account, previously Twitter.
The letter from the senators
The letter states that the credible allegations in opposition to him, together with “mismanagement, moral misconduct, and abuse of authority” at UNRWA in 2019, “disqualify him from main the ICRC at this pivotal second in historical past.”
As well as, the letter notes that in his tenure at UNRWA, “UNRWA services had been repeatedly used to retailer weapons on behalf of the US-designated international terrorist group Hamas. Furthermore, below Mr. Krahenbuhl’s management, UNRWA textbooks included antisemitic materials that incited anti-Israeli violence.”
The letter continues to say that the failure to deal with this, arguably, was a precursor to the October 7 bloodbath, which “we now know included direct participation by UNRWA workers.”
The letter concludes, “America Congress takes these allegations and corresponding proof extraordinarily severely. As the most important donor to the ICRC, we can not stand idly by as yet one more worldwide group falls prey to antisemitism and violence, not to mention gross mismanagement and ethical corruption.”
The ICRC has already been charged with holding anti-Israel bias because the October 7 bloodbath. The Crimson Cross has been closely scrutinized for failing to go to Israeli hostages and never reporting that the hostages had been taken to Shifa Hospital.
The Jerusalem Insitute of Justice (JIJ) performed an evaluation of the ICRC’s social media following Hamas’s October 7 bloodbath and located that there have been no posts, photographs, graphics, or movies highlighting the damages suffered by Israel because of Hamas or different Palestinian terrorist teams.
Neither had been there any posts addressing the October 7 tragedy, rockets launched by Hamas indiscriminately at civilian populations, or the hostages kidnapped.
