There is simply no alternative to @UNRWA.
The ban of UNRWA will not make #Israel safer, it will only deepen the suffering of the people of #Gaza and increase the risk of disease outbreaks and other health issues. pic.twitter.com/Jj3iEqj7wy
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 4, 2024
It turns out the Jews were right to be so bold.
The most Zionist American politician in history is being coronated today. The US will bomb UN aid workers if Bibi tells them to.
Israel has formally informed the United Nations of its intention to sever ties entirely with the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees in a move the country’s allies and aid workers warn will deepen the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East.
The Knesset passed two bills last week banning Unrwa from Israeli territory and prohibiting Israeli state contact with the agency on the basis of allegations that Hamas had infiltrated it.
The ban will take effect in three months but in the first step towards implementing the Knesset vote, the Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, sent a letter to the UN secretary general and the president of the general assembly officially withdrawing Israel from a 1967 cooperation agreement with Unrwa.
“Despite the overwhelming evidence we submitted to the UN that substantiate[s] Hamas’s infiltration of Unrwa, the UN did nothing to rectify the situation,” Danon wrote on X on Monday.
An internal UN inquiry found in August that nine Unrwa employees “may have been involved” in the surprise Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October last year, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage, triggering the current conflict.
Unrwa has 13,000 employees in Gaza and is by far the biggest aid agency in the coastal strip. The UN has denied charges that the agency has been fundamentally compromised by infiltration.
#Gaza pic.twitter.com/7gA4XvzScn
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) November 4, 2024
Aid experts, as well as Israel’s closest allies, have said there is no alternative to Unrwa in terms of providing relief to Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and across the region, and that the ban could cripple services to an embattled population that increasingly depends on them.
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The state department said on Monday that Israel had failed to significantly improve conditions in the strip, as Washington’s deadline for a permanent transformation of the humanitarian crisis approached.
The “deadline” was scheduled for after the election, lol.
This is all so absurd.
“UNRWA exists to perpetuate conflict and to give the Palestinians this false hope of a right of return into sovereign Israel. That means the end of Israel as a Jewish state. That means October 7th.”
UN Watch Legal Advisor @RovnerDina interviewed on @chaifm: pic.twitter.com/SzGzZZGOsa
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) November 4, 2024