Feeding the People of Gaza, and the UNRWA , western nations stop contributing to the relief fund. Time and Again, as the thought the Europian Nations are humane nation, but they choose not to contribute for disaster.
By Latheef Farook
In the wake of International Court of Justice, ICJ, ruling on Israeli genocide in Gaza on Friday 26 January 2024, many western countries which support Israeli genocide in Gaza have cut off badly needed funds for United Nations Relief and Works Agency-UNRWA – the sole lifeline of Palestinian refugees.
These countries – US, UK,Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada, Finland and Netherlands – decided to suspend funding to UNRWA after Israeli allegations that twelve staff members were involved in the Hamas incursion into Israel on 7 October last year. No evidence was presented; just allegations against twelve employees out of 30000 across the agency’s areas of operation, upon which the nine governments acted like the obedient lapdogs that they are.
UNRWA was first established in 1949 to help the Palestinian forcibly displaced from their homes by Zionist Jews when they committed genocide to create the settler state of Israel on Palestinian lands.UNRWA provides essential services upon which Palestinian refugees depend. This in turn, serves Israel’s colonization plans.
Today UNRWA exists because it allowed Israeli colonialism to thrive while preventing Palestinians from their political right to return to their land and homes.It is a cycle in which only one winner emerges, either way, and Palestinians remain pawns in the game because UNRWA takes priority, either because Israel calls for its dismantling, or because Palestinians are in dire need of its service.
Putting UNRWA in the spotlight has been a tactic that Israel has used frequently, and one that the UN has allowed. UNRWA exists for a purpose that is more political than humanitarian due to the history that founded it, and which allowed Israeli colonialism to thrive while preventing Palestinians from their political right to return to their land and homes.
Suspending the fund was not something unexpected. Columnist Ramona Wadi pointed out that in 2018, the Trump administration cut off US funding for UNRWA . A similar pattern has now emerged.Israel’s classified foreign ministry report seek to eliminate UNRWA from Gaza in three steps: alleged cooperation of UNRWA staff members with Hamas; a reduction of UNRWA services in Gaza; and ultimately the transfer of all of the agency’s duties to the entity governing Gaza after Israel decides that it has quenched its thirst for death and destruction.
Thus Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. Nine out of 10 people in Gaza cannot eat every day and have to skip meals for extended periods of time
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