Israel’s vote is based on solid evidence about UNRWA. The organization was fully infiltrated. It was long ago discovered to be promoting antisemitic textbooks in school curricula, as well as material that incited violence.
UNRWA employees participated in Hamas’ savage attack on Israeli citizens on October 7, and continued to aid Hamas afterward.
Last month, a lawsuit was filed in New York federal court on behalf of more than 100 Israeli victims of the October 7 attack. The lawsuit states that “UNRWA facilitated construction of Hamas command and control centers, attack tunnels and underground bunkers under UNRWA headquarters, UNRWA schools, medical clinics, and offices.”
No @UNRWA.
You’re paying the price for employing literal murderers. https://t.co/ChXX6gYxnk
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) February 4, 2024
“Israeli parliament votes to label UN relief agency a terror organisation,” Reuters, July 22, 2024:
JERUSALEM, July 22 (Reuters) – The Israeli parliament gave preliminary approval on Monday to a bill that declares the main United Nations relief organization for Palestinians a terrorist organisation and proposes to sever relations with the body.
The vote against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) is the latest step in a Israeli push against the agency, which Israeli leaders have accused of collaborating with the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza.
The bill was approved in a first reading and will be returned to the foreign affairs and defence committee for further deliberation, the Knesset information service said.
The bill’s sponsor, Yulia Malinovsky, was quoted as describing UNRWA as a “fifth column within Israel”.UNRWA provides education, health and aid to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. It has long had tense relations with Israel but relations have deteriorated sharply since the start of the war in Gaza and Israel has called repeatedly for UNRWA to be disbanded.….
Hoi Polloi says
“Israeli parliament votes to label Hamas-linked UNRWA a terror organization.“
Good! Call them what they are. Force governments to explain sending tax dollars to terrorists.
rick says
Trump removed all financial support for this Hamas controlled UN group which runs schools in Gaza demonizing Jews and teaching racist ideas about Jews to Gaza’s children. Biden re-funded UNRWA and was proud to do it. Either he is totally misinformed or he supports Anti-Semitism. No other possibilities exist. And UNRWA allows school properties under its control to be used for launching rockets into Israel and storing military equipment for Hamas. So who do you trust? Your own eyes, or Hamas?