{"id":253301,"date":"2024-01-29T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=253301"},"modified":"2024-07-01T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:20:04","slug":"unbelievable-west-launches-war-on-unrwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/unbelievable-west-launches-war-on-unrwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbelievable: West Launches War on UNRWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>War on Gaza Refugees \u2013 Germany, UK, among Others, Suspend Funds to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>27 Jan 2024<\/em> &#8211; Following the US, Italy, Germany, Australia, and Canada, the UK and Finland have also decided to suspend funding to UNRWA.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, Britain, and Finland have joined other countries in pausing funding to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), following Israeli allegations that some employees were involved in the October 7 military operation carried out by the Palestinian Resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Following the US, Italy, Germany, Australia, and Canada, the UK and Finland have also decided to suspend funding to UNRWA.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland on Saturday voiced support for investigating Israeli allegations, but said it will not pause funding for the agency\u2019s Gaza work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFull confidence in @UNLazzarini\u2019s (agency head Philippe Lazzarini) decision to immediately suspend @UNRWA staff suspected of participation in the heinous attacks of October 7, to investigate thoroughly and show zero tolerance on terror,\u201d Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin wrote on X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UNRWA COMMISSIONER-GENERAL: <\/p>\n<p>The suspension of the agency&#39;s funding is shocking and threatens humanitarian work in the region, especially in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>I call on countries that suspended funding to reconsider their decisions.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW OUR LIVE BLOG:<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qfIcCqdo1Q\" >https:\/\/t.co\/qfIcCqdo1Q<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GLM6gfpgqr\" >pic.twitter.com\/GLM6gfpgqr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PalestineChron\/status\/1751354757514469446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Martin said that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees provided life-saving assistance to 2.3 million people and at incredible personal cost \u2013 with over 100 staff killed in the last four months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIreland has no plans to suspend funding for UNRWA\u2019s vital Gaza work,\u201d underlined Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland, he said, provided the UNRWA \u20ac18 million ($19.5 million) in 2023 and will continue its support in 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IRISH FM: We have no intention of suspending funding for UNRWA&#39;s vital work in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW OUR LIVE BLOG:<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qfIcCqdo1Q\" >https:\/\/t.co\/qfIcCqdo1Q<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C6vDKrnOFo\" >pic.twitter.com\/C6vDKrnOFo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PalestineChron\/status\/1751314465562202301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>UNRWA\u2019s Role in ICJ Ruling<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The statement issued by UNRWA\u2019s Commissioner-general Lazzarini on January 13, one day after Israel\u2019s oral argument at the International Criminal Court, was included by the ICJ as evidence that Israel has \u201ccaused mass displacement of a population that is in a state of flux.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UNRWA statement added that \u201cthe plight of children in Gaza is especially heartbreaking\u201d and that \u201can entire generation of children is traumatized and will take years to heal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was also used to prove that the crisis in Gaza \u201cis compounded by dehumanizing language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health, 26,257 Palestinians have been killed, and 64,797 wounded in Israel\u2019s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7. Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.defenddemocracy.press\/unbelievable-west-launches-war-on-unrwa\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; defenddemocracy.press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 Jan 2024 &#8211; War on Gaza Refugees: Following the US, Italy, Germany, Australia, Canada, UK and Finland have also decided to suspend funding to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":69764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[1268,87,865,1029,88,715,427,821,265,3220,2615,70],"class_list":["post-253301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations","tag-european-union","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-massacre","tag-palestine","tag-refugees","tag-terrorism","tag-un-agency-for-palestinian-refugees-unrwa","tag-un-refugee-convention","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253319,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253301\/revisions\/253319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}