Donors halt funding to UN Gaza agency UNRWA over claim of militant links • FRANCE 24 English
Respondent Iris macka about what exactly Israel is claiming I can only tell you the little that we do know we know that Israel and I piece this together from a media report that’s reports in the Israeli media some off the Record comments from Israeli officials and some comments from
The UN itself so what we know is that the U that Israel presented the UN with a dossier in which 12 people were named as taking part in the October the 7th attacks that’s 12 employees or staffers of um of of unra itself and then they they were that included uh interrogation
Details that’s details from interrogations of Hamas militants who crossed into Israel and were captured so it’s their security interrogation uh it’s also video footage of people who were taking part what we’ve heard from Philip lazarini is that 12 people were named nine have been Loc ated and fired
One is believed to be dead and two they’re still searching for the final two so you can see that why it is a serious allegation there’s also the allegation that equipment was used uh by those attackers unra equipment and of course um Israel has been presenting over the course of this war information
About unra equipment and unra shelters uh and other unra places um being used to fire Rockets or having tunnels beneath them so I think altogether these serious allegations have led to this reaction
Several key donor countries have said they will halt funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees following Israel’s allegations that staff members took part in Hamas’s October 7 attack. The UNRWA has fired several people and promised a thorough investigation into the claims, which were not specified, while Israel has vowed to stop the agency’s work in Gaza after the war. The head of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, vowed to hold “accountable, including through criminal prosecution”, any employee found to have been involved in “acts of terror”. FRANCE 24’s Jerusalem correspondent Irris Makler has the details.
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26 comments
Donors should take a good look at the syllabus of these unrwa schools before resuming of donations.🧐
The US Senate needs to investigate these allegations while UNRWA must be disbanded
UNRWA investigating UNRWA is a butcher inspecting his own meat!
Convert them all to Scientology
Finally indeed, its not just a 12/[total employees] percent calculation that the wokests spread. What an eye opener that it may be a organisation culture of terror. Obviously Biden should never have started the funding for UNRWA after Trump had stopped this in 2018.
The world's aid organisations basically funded it
Muslim Countries has the Right to Support themselves. Don't Rely on Western Countries.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and here we are watching it in recent events.
It is NOT an allegations, it is a HARD FACTS! UNRWA is in cohorts, conduit, and tentacle of Hamas Terrorists group.
(cutting help when people risk genocide) ….give them right to have state and they wont need help….
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Respect to the IDF, Ban & Defund UN & UNRWA and fire un chief for incompetency
Lies Lies Lies
Allegations are not facts
Terrorist in UN agency is horrified,
Why doesnt israel come out and speak out and let the world know that they where hamas biggest founders 😂😂😂😂
UNRWA should vanish for good.
What a nonsense, so called refugees, 75 years on the same ground, four generations of them and still living on benefits.
Let Muslims help them, there are 1,9 billions of them in the world
Why give food to people that wants you dead?
Get rid of UNRAW 🇬🇧
UN and Palestine worried about not getting their cut from the UNRWA fund.
Try to investigate UN chief guterres.
The documentary titled "The UNRWA Askar Camp: Cradle of Terror" has the details.
You know it was more than just twelve.
How is possible that Palestinians politicians and Hamas leaders are Billionaires? UNRWA!!!😮USING POOR PEOPLE TO BE RICHER IS DISGUSTING!!! Please I don't want see any Pro Hamas PROTESTERS on the streets.
The URWA employees should be from nations ,which are funding.This system is best for the people of gaza.Otherwise it will be useful to hamas.zWill ZuN think about to get back the trust it had lost?
Why are we funding the bulk of it to begin with? What happened to their oil-rich brotherhood countries?