UNRWA funding cuts: Why is Israel trying to destroy the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees?

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UNRWA funding cuts: Why is Israel trying to destroy the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees?


The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), considered a lifeline for two million people in the besieged enclave, has suffered funding cuts after several of its staff were accused by Israel of involvement in the October 7 Hamas attack.
The UN on Saturday said that it had terminated nine out of 12 staff over the allegations and…

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  1. Even if a very few people who broke out on 7 October had been related somehow to UNRWA this would NOT warrant stopping support for UNRWA. The character of ANY organization with 32000 employees must be expected to have some persons with particular characteristics, it would obviously be grossly UNFAIR to generalize from some very few persons to the whole organization.

  2. Anyone with intelligence would expect more than 0.04% of UNRWA employees would have participated in the actions on 7 Oct. This is the basic nature of groups of humans. There is no perfect organization with 32000 people.

  3. Comments On Astonishing Scenes From Gaza Today:

    my sympathy for Gaza ended when mainstream media were saying children were starving, but at the same time Gazans were on YouTube livestreaming themselves feeding the food we sent to stray cats.. or even worse.. while mainstream media said everyone in Gaza was starving. Gazans were livestreaming themselves throwing the food we sent in the trash. The BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera will hate you for this!!! Gaza could have been a prosperous tourist country except Hamas couldn’t see beyond their hate. UN currently asking for 2.8 million aid for Gaza what a joke. "Gaza is a concentration camp!" Really!!! From what I hear, Sudan is much worse. But there are no Jews to hate there! The poor starving oppressed people of Gaza think we don't know what's going on. I've seen the videos of the actors crying over babies and children being killed then not realising the camera is still running and she is smiling at being congratulated by one of the cameramen!!! As an UK citizen, ask your self, why you should work hard 5 days a week to get one day off to get to the beach like this! while others get 1 billion "aid" money a year and tons of free food, have ~50% unemployment and can make it easily on the beach! POOR, POOR GAZANS ALWAYS PLAYING THE VICTIM CARD!

  4. Because UNWRA shouldn't even exist. UNRWA depends on Palestinian refugees for their jobs so it's in their interest to perpetuate the problem. Proof is how overstaffed they are: the real refugee agency, the UNHCR, is doing good work worldwide with 2/3 of UNRWA staff.

  5. So simple. Maybe because they are training future anti Semitic terrorists and aiding Hamas? Duh. So simple that most intelligent people can understand it, but unfortunately with UNRWA that excludes most teachers and staff.

  6. THE ISRAELI PEOPLE ARE FULL OF CONVINIENTS MITHS LIKE THE RETURN OF REFUGESS TO FINISH WITH THE STATE OF iSRAEL, OR UNRWA KEEPS THE REFUGEE MITH AND THE IDEA OF RETURN, THEY BELIVED THAT WITHOUT UNRWA THEY WILL SOLVE THE CALLED PROBLEM OF REFUGEES, AND THAT IS A MITH, REFUGEES WILL HAVE THE SAME RIGTHS WITH UNRWA AND WITHOUT UNRWA,

  7. Israel is nothing special. They are no better or worse than any other corrupt and sinful government, nor are they any more or less sinful than any other peoples on the earth. They do not deserve to be raised up like, as if, God thinks they are any more special than the rest of us. Supremacy induces sinful pride and a need to rule over others.

    God gave Israelites the land way back when they were God's people who followed and obeyed God. When they disobeyed they got kicked out of the land. When they REPENTED and returned to God, they were brought BACK to the land. When they AGAIN disobeyed God and were UNREPENTANT, He kicked them out of the land. LAST I READ IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, that declaration was presented to them by Jesus:

    ”O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.“
    ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭23‬:‭37‬-‭39‬ ‭KJV‬‬

    So! Have they said "Blessed be the name of the Lord?" I have not seen that! THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF THAT. If something is true you would see the fruits of it! (ALL I SEE IS ROTTEN FRUIT.)

    Instead of waiting for GOD to bring them back, in a peaceful and blessed way, they took the land that was forfeited from them by FORCE…by MAN… by the Balfour Declaration… by the SATANIC United Nations and ROTHSCHILDS MONEY……not by God. Do you not think God knows this is not the time? Do you think God would force innocent people to DIE for a REAL ESTATE CAUSE???? Do you think God makes promises to bless UNREPENTANT PEOPLE? Think again. A covenant is a TWO-WAY agreement, with CONDITIONS. God kept his promise, but those who broke the covenant still feel entitled to its benefits and the rest of us are indebted to their selfish and oppressive cause.

    For the Zionists who call themselves Christians… LET THAT SINK IN.

  8. Al Jazeera had a journalist participate in Hamas .. shameful , deceitful and makes your news agency corrupt … However, a document that the IDF posted to social media appears to prove that Thuria was a Hamas operative. The document lists him as a deputy squad commander in a battalion of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the terror group’s “military wing.”

    Other documents found by the IDF indicate that Dadough was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative whose specialty is electronic engineering and who previously served as a deputy commander of a platoon in the Zaytoun Battalion. Before his death, he was in charge of a section of PIJ’s rocket unit.

  9. The UNRWA supports terrorists. Thats important. Not the israelis dstroyed it, because that does the UNRWA themselves. if they do it, they get never money. All the arabs states could support their sisters and brothers. Why didnt they do it? You know the answer Al Jazeera. The genocid is supported by islamic fanatics. nochting more. The Israels have no interests to do that. Why does they help the arabic people in ghaza?

  10. “No prior concerns about UNRWA’s staff”. Is that a joke? Search “UN Watch for evidence”. It has been known for years that unrwa, though it helps with basic needs, it also promotes Islamist politics in support of war against Israel, not a peaceful 2 state solution

  11. Perhaps it was only 12, perhaps many more who have yet to be identified. But those 12 have still done an enormous amount of harm. And they are right about the definition of "refugee", I believe that no other organization in the world recognizes the 2nd or 3rd generation of descendants of refugees as refugees themselves, this is unique to UNRWA. One must ask why. And are they really "refugees" when they are still living in Gaza, where they were born? That defies the definition of the term "refugee" (and frankly, is a slap in the face to those who really are refugees). Really, they are certainly victims of Hamas, their ruling government, but they are not "refugees".
    And one more thing, I have watched many Al Jazeera reports, and one thing I am consistently noticing is that AJ are not exactly fair handed or impartial, which is unfortunate from a large organization. It seems that the Qatari govt might have more influence over them than just funding.

  12. The countries that recognized Israel must realize that their recognition of a colonial entity came at the expense of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. The Palestinian people will not forget and will not forgive those who colluded with the Zionist occupier. Israel was founded by committing the crime of forced displacement and expelling the Palestinian people from their land by committing crimes of ethnic cleansing and theft of Palestinian property. The countries that bragged about preventing funding for UNRWA would be the first to force the Israeli occupation state to implement United Nations Resolution No. 194 regarding the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes, villages, and fields, and to compensate them for the damages they suffered. Rights do not lapse by statute of limitations. You provide the occupying state with the latest technology, weapons, equipment and ammunition to slaughter innocent people in Gaza. A shameless world based on injustice, arrogance, theft, and falsification of facts

  13. The West have a collective punishment syndrome. They are ok with killing everyone in Gaza because couple guys attacked Israel. Now they are stopping funding because Israel said a couple workers were involved in the attack on Oct 7th. Collective punishment all the way – the West mantra. They did not stop funding Israel when it broke all the UN laws in the West Bank, stealing homes and land. I am for nether side, just peace and justice for all.

  14. 1) Hamas is the duly elected governing body in the state of Gaza.

    2) Hamas the state of Gaza planned, funded, and fully sanctioned a full attack against the sovereign state of Israel launching it on Oct 7th

    a. Committing the worst against innocent Israeli citizens and others. Taking over 200 innocent people as hostages to uses as bartering chips. All against the rules of war

    b. Hamas fully supported those attacks and launched volley after volley of rockets against Israel.

    c. Israel soldiers who were captured where rap.. and but…… totally against the Geneva convention. Hamasa actions were state sponsored, the state of Gaza against the state of Israel.

    3) As such Israel had every right to declare war on the state of Gaza not just Hamas, by the rules of war and the Geneva Convention

    4) Under the rules of war and the Geneva convention Hamas by using public and private institutions: hospitals, schools and homes to launch and hide weapons has made those structures legitimate war targets. This further extends Hamas’s activities within the entire Gaza region giving Israel the moral right to strike anywhere within Gaza and any structure

    Under the rules of war and the Geneva Convention Israel has every right to continue until the Israeli demands for a peace settlement on their terms are fulfilled. That includes denying the entry of aid and material to the aggressor which is the state of Gaza. This is no different than the unconditional surrender demanded by the Allied powers from Japan.

  15. Let's be fair here, the problem isn't that UNRWA employees are pro-Hamas or pro Jihad and are biased. They are Palestinians living in Gaza. That's natural. The problem is that the UN is doing word-laudnring, treating UNRWA as if they are an impartial member when it comes to reporting from Gaza, when it comes to the ICJ etc. While the UN purpose is to provide aid, it is also expected of it to make a positive influence towards peace and reconciliation. Instead their agency actively perpetuate the conflict. Shame on you and this news channel for treating the audience like idiots. Countries should be able to contribute to the Palestinian people without supporting war and jihadist ideology. You want to support jihad? Starve.

  16. "Jobs"! Teaching anti-semitic hate content, forming future terrorists, we saw the manuals and what they teach! UNRWA is Hamas. No funding for UNRWA. Arab countries should now show their mercy and help the Palestinians.

  17. I’m rich, and I live I live in the West. You’re not entitled to MY money. If Hamas doesn’t care about protecting and helping refugees, why should I ?