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Webinar: Must Israel co-operate with UNRWA?

November 14, 2025
UKLFI Charitable Trust invites you to a webinar on MUST ISRAEL COOPERATE WITH UNRWA? With Hillel Neuer and Natasha Hausdorff
On Monday 17 November at 4 pm UK time (6pm Israel, 5pm Europe, 11am US East Coast)
On 29 October 2024 Israel’s parliament (the Knesset) passed legislation by overwhelming bi-partisan majorities prohibiting any contact between Israeli State Authorities and UNRWA as well as any activity of UNRWA on Israeli territory. More recently, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has said that UNRWA “became a subsidiary of Hamas” and is not going to play any role in humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip. This follows numerous reports over the years by the NGO, UNWatch, containing evidence of extensive infiltration of UNRWA by Hamas obtained from open sources. However, on 22 October 2025 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) provided a non-binding advisory opinion to the UN General Assembly which concluded that Israel must cooperate with UNRWA and other UN agencies.In this webinar Dr Hiller Neuer, Executive Director of UNWatch, and Natasha Hausdorff, Legal Director of UKLFI Charitable Trust, will discuss how the ICJ reached its conclusion and the implications for Israel, Gaza, UNRWA and International Law itself.

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More about the speakers:

Hillel Neuer is the Executive Director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO in Geneva. In 2016, the City of Chicago declared Hillel Neuer Day, citing his role “as one of the world’s foremost human rights advocates.” In 2018, McGill University awarded Neuer an honorary doctorate for his work to advance human rights. The Tribune de Genève has described Neuer as a human rights activist who is “feared and dreaded” by the world’s dictatorships.
In 2007 Neuer’s banned speech on the hypocrisy of the UNHRC became the most viewed NGO speech in the UN’s history. His 2017 speech “Where are your Jews” has been viewed over 11 million times on Facebook and YouTube.
Since 2009, Neuer has headed a coalition of 25 human rights groups as chair of the annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, which provides a global platform to pro-democracy dissidents from around the world.
Neuer is a member of the New York Bar and practised commercial and civil rights litigation at an international law firm in New York before joining UN Watch.

Natasha Hausdorff is a barrister at 6 Pump Court Chambers and a frequent speaker on International Law. She has a law degree from Oxford University, qualified as a solicitor at Skadden, and subsequently gained an LLM from Tel Aviv University, focussing on public international law and the law of armed conflict.  She clerked for Miriam Naor, President of Israel’s Supreme Court, and was a fellow at Columbia Law School’s National Security programme. Natasha is legal director of UKLFI Charitable Trust.

Natasha’s work explaining legal issues relating to Israel has been recognised this year by the American Jewish Committee’s award for moral courage and by the honour of lighting one of the torches on Har Herzl to mark Israel’s Independence Day.