{"id":261040,"date":"2024-04-29T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261040"},"modified":"2024-04-28T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T02:31:08","slug":"un-report-demolishes-israeli-propaganda-campaign-against-unrwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/un-report-demolishes-israeli-propaganda-campaign-against-unrwa\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Report Demolishes Israeli Propaganda Campaign against UNRWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_261041\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unrwa-gaza-israel-genocide-palestine.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261041\" class=\"wp-image-261041\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unrwa-gaza-israel-genocide-palestine.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unrwa-gaza-israel-genocide-palestine.jpeg 942w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unrwa-gaza-israel-genocide-palestine-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/unrwa-gaza-israel-genocide-palestine-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food aid arrives at a UNRWA school-turned-shelter in Gaza.\u00a0 (Photo credit: UNRWA)<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>Israel has waged a multi-year campaign against the UN aid group for Palestinian refugees in hopes of eradicating the right of return.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>22 Apr 2024 <\/em>&#8211; Israel has failed to provide any evidence of its claims that employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) are members of \u201cterrorist organizations,\u201d according to an independent review led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Israel claimed without evidence that some UNRWA staff \u2013 until then the primary conduit of humanitarian aid into the besieged and bombed Gaza Strip \u2013 were members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and had participated in the Hamas-led attack on Israeli military bases and settlements on 7 October, known as Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli allegations promptly caused the US and other western nations to cut funding to UNRWA. This came amid reports from rights groups that Israel was using starvation as a weapon against the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>Guardian<\/i>\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/israel-unrwa-staff-terrorist-links-yet-to-provide-evidence-colonna-report\" >reported<\/a>\u00a0on 22 April that the \u201cColonna report,\u201d which was commissioned by the UN in the wake of Israeli allegations, found that UNRWA had regularly supplied Israel with lists of its employees for vetting, and that \u201cthe Israeli government has not informed UNRWA of any concerns relating to any UNRWA staff based on these staff lists since 2011.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thecradle.co\/articles\/un-report-demolishes-israeli-propaganda-campaign-against-unrwa\" >Continue reading in the Original<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 Apr 2024 &#8211; Israel has waged a multi-year campaign against the UN aid group for Palestinian refugees in hopes of eradicating the right of return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":261041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[87,865,88,2571,427,3243,124,70],"class_list":["post-261040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-palestine","tag-un-relief-and-works-agency-unrwa","tag-united-nations","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261040","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=261040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261042,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261040\/revisions\/261042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}