[…] All EU donors have now resumed their support to the Agency, still in critical financial situation. We have to step up our support; the needs are only growing.
@oatmeal@palestine@israel Disgusting hypocrites. That funding shouldn't have been stopped.
More, #UNWRA shouldn't have to exist. These donors are covering for Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity with their White Saviour façade. Disgusting. #RightOfReturn#LandBackPalestine
from#WashingtonPost [gift article link below]
Leaders of #Jordan, #France and #Egypt: Cease fire now in #Gaza
By King Abdullah II, Emmanuel Macron and Abdel Fatah El-Sisi
April 8, 2024
It demands immediate ceasefire, respect and protection for [#UN agencies including #UNWRA, respect for Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, etc.]
A US Army soldier and intelligence analyst was arrested today at Fort Campbell. Prosecutors say among the material he is alleged to have sent to a suspect Chinese co-conspirator are US war plans in case Taiwan is attacked, HIMARS documents and manuals for ICBMs and the F-22A jet fighter. https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1341561/dl?inline
World Court hearing on legality of Israeli occupation ends following week of testimony
Over 50 nations presented testimony to the ICJ on the legality of the Israeli occupation, with the majority offering stirring arguments for Israeli accountability and justice for the Palestinians. An Advisory Opinion is expected sometime this summer.
'Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, warned that suspending UNRWA funding “overtly defies” an order issued Friday by the International Court of Justice to allow more aid into Gaza.'
What this means is, as I understand it, basically that Israel continues the #GazaGenocide and that the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, the Netherlands, the UK, Italy, Australia and Finland are fomenting, and thus complicit in, that genocide.
'The UNRWA is the largest humanitarian actor in Gaza and some 3,000 of its core staff out of 13,000 in Gaza continue to report to work despite the war, according to the agency.
UNRWA’s Lazzarini said two million people out of about 2.3 million population in Gaza depend on the agency’s humanitarian operation.
“I am shocked such decisions are taken based on alleged behavior of a few individuals and as the war continues, needs are deepening & famine looms,” the UNRWA chief posted on X.
“Palestinians in Gaza did not need this additional collective punishment. This stains all of us.”
The UN official added that the agency runs shelters for over one million people and provides food and primary healthcare even at the height of the hostilities.
Meanwhile, UN chief Antonio Guterres said that the tens of thousands of people who work for the UNRWA, many in some of the most dangerous situations, should not be penalised because of the recent allegations.
“The dire needs of the desperate populations they serve must be met,” he said.'
@morpheo@palestine I see it as a "f*ck you" to the #ICJ for having told them to stop immediately killing Palestinians and to help the humanitarian efforts.
It is incomprehensible that so many Western countries follow them on that path of genocidal (and illegal) madness. #UNWRA