...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
's top diplomat said on Sunday cutting funds to UNRWA would put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk, because of allegations on some of the UN Paleostinian refugee agency's staff for involvement in the October 7 Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...attacks on Israel.
Maybe they could start with firing the guy at the top?
A string of countries, including the United States, Britannia and Italia, have paused funding to the aid agency, which has opened an investigation into several of its thousands of employees and severed ties with the people.
Then they could shitcan the on-site administrators who looked the other way (or supported!) the organization taking sides?
UNRWA on Thursday said its entire operations in the Middle East, not only in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, will likely be forced to shut down by the end of February if its funding remains suspended.
"Defunding UNRWA would be both disproportionate and dangerous," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wrote in a blog post.
Since nobody's been fired except (possibly some of) the guys who actually participated in the attack, I don't see it as disproportionate at all.
"The wrongdoing of individuals should never lead to the collective punishment of an entire population," he said.
Borrell said neither the European Commission, nor the EU's two biggest economies, Germany or La Belle France, had decided to end their contributions. Funds paused by other donors amount to more than $440 million, nearly half of the agency's expected income this year, he said.
In 2022, the EU was the third biggest donor to UNRWA, after the United States and Germany.
"The lives of hundreds of thousands of Paleostinians, not only in Gaza, are at stake," Borrell said.
UNRWA was established in 1949 following the war surrounding the founding of Israel, when 700,000 Paleostinians fled or were driven from their homes.
It employs 30,000 Paleostinians to serve the civic and humanitarian needs of 5.9 million descendants of those refugees — in the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank and in vast camps in neighbouring Arab countries.
"I am confident that the UN will take all the necessary measures following the Israeli allegations, and that UNRWA will continue to be a vital lifeline for millions of Paleostinian people," Borrell added.