[IsraelTimes] Gaza’s Palestinian aid agency, in funding shortage after Israel accused some employees of taking part in Oct. 7 massacre, initially said it would run out of money this month
The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
agency for Paleostinian refugees (UNRWA) has enough funds to keep operating until at least the end of May, its chief told Swiss media on Tuesday.
UNRWA, which coordinates nearly all aid to 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 Hamaswith 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...
, has faced severe funding cuts since Israel accused at least a dozen of its 13,000 employees in the Strip of taking part in Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,’s murderous onslaught against Israel on October 7.
Israel also uncovered a Hamas control center directly below the UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters, though the agency claimed it had no idea it was there.
This led many donor nations, including the United States, to abruptly suspend funding to the agency, threatening its efforts to deliver desperately needed aid in Gaza, where the UN has warned of an impending famine. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini had warned last month that the funding crunch was so great the organization might not might not be able to operate beyond March.
Lazzarini told Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
’s Keystone-ATS news agency Tuesday that "the situation today is less dramatic."
| Even less so since yesterday’s announcement that France and Japan are bqck in. |
Lazzarini was in Geneva to brief Switzerland’s parliamentary foreign policy commission on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and to address questions about Israel’s accusations against the UNRWA employees, the commission said in a brief statement.
The Swiss national is hoping to convince his country to follow the lead of the nations that have resumed their funding to UNRWA.
Switzerland, which in recent years has dished out around 20 million Swiss francs ($22 million) annually to UNRWA, said in late January the 2024 payment was in doubt following Israel’s allegations against the agency.
The UN has launched both an internal and an independent investigation, but has said Israel has not provided it with any evidence to support the claims against its staff.
Lazzarini has accused Israel of trying to destroy UNRWA, which employs some 30,000 people across the Paleostinian territories, Jordan,
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...and Syria.
He claimed last week to have been barred from entering Gaza and said over the weekend that Israel had definitively barred the agency from making aid deliveries into northern Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest. COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry body governing civilian affairs in the Paleostinian territories, said on X that Lazzarini had not followed "the necessary coordination processes and channels" when requesting entry into Gaza.
Israel has started working with other groups in Gaza, such as the UN World Food Programme, to deliver humanitarian aid
to Paleostinians instead of UNRWA, which it has said it is seeking to shut down following years of allegations.A watchdog said in a new report that textbooks used in UNRWA schools in Gaza contain anti-Israel incitement, including the systematic erasure of Israel’s existence and the glorification of