Trump Reviewing Question of Whether United Nations Is Immune From Prosecution Over Its Relief Agency’s Role in Abetting Hamas

Lawsuit by October 7 victims names commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and other executives of the organization.

AP/Bilal Hussein
The commissioner-general of Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini, during an interview with the Associated Press at Beirut, Lebanon, February 6, 2025. AP/Bilal Hussein

President Trump’s Department of  Justice could soon contest the United Nations claim that it is immune from legal action in the American court system, where Israelis are asserting that one of the world body’s agencies abetted 2023 terror atrocities, the Sun has learned.  

The justice department is asking a judge in the Southern District of New York, Analisa Torres, to await a ruling on whether the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees is automatically immune from standing trial in a case against the agency brought by families of Hamas’s victims on October 7, 2023.

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