Why are Israel and its Western allies targeting UNRWA? | The Bottom Line
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- About 20 countries have announced suspension of funding to UNRWA, the agency that has been providing services to Palestinian refugees since 1950.
The official reason for the suspension was Israel’s accusation that a dozen UNRWA employees in Gaza had participated in the October 7 Hamas attacks.
To understand the potential consequences of undermining UNRWA - especially amid a humanitarian catastrophe - host Steve Clemons speaks with Leila Hilal, a former adviser to the UNRWA commissioner-general, and Anne Irfan, lecturer at University College London and author of Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System.
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"Complicit with a genocide agenda." Exactly. Otherwise, the horrifying irresponsibility of Biden et al. makes no sense.
I feel like this is more than one man. It's clear to me that the West are complicit. Our economys are based on arms, war & death. We take resources and pay very little for them.
We need to look inwards. What do we want to be as humanbeings?
Free Palestine ✌️
I did comment to you, but it has been deleted 😪
Free Palestine ✌️
lol
Ceasefire = protect Hamas and permit the radical Islamist movement that will never accept a two-state solution or peace with Israel to rearm and start attacking civilians again (that's been its mode of operation since its inception: suicide bombers and missiles directed at civilians. Sadly, Hamas promotes martyrdom as a spiritual good. Hamas built its military infrastructure under civilian infrastructure everywhere, including mosques, hospitals, schools...
Ceasefire is complicit with genocide, Hamas has been very clear that it’s their aim
Why do the western allies have to fund UNRWA.. why can't it be funded by Arabs Nations.. they make Billions a day and they give the bare minimum!! 🤷🏽♂️
No, no funding from anyone. Millions in the world have a difficult life and nobody is funding them. In 70+ years the UNRWA wasn´t able to create infrastructure, jobs, nothing. Go look for something to do and help yourself. These people are professional refugees.
H4m4$ leader in Qatar still considers themselves refugees too, despite being billionaires.
@jcmata92,...because the refugees are created by a certain country, backed by western nations.
WHY moved the palestinians from their land to form a jewish state israel , it is the germans who are responsible for the holacaust so they haveto used half of germany to create a jewish state ie former east germany but they wont because they think its better to make another race pay for their crimes
well because westerns se d millions od missiles there so probably they want pales to die with full stomach. thats how evil politics work
What happened to the jewish population (in equivalent numbers) that fled Arab countries in the wake of the creation of Israel? Do they have a right of return? Are they still protected as refugees?
Yep they should be paid reparations.
Many came to Israel in the 1930s and 40s as refugees from germany Austria etc.
The majority came from Muslim countries after being thrown out when Israel was created. They were forced to leave countries they had lived in for centuries and has to leave everything behind. Many were killed.@@2321brendan
@@2321brendan No that's not what happened....after siding with the German during WW1 and negotiating with Germany during WW2 and the Haulocaust the Allies gave Isreal the land. It belonged to Britian. Refugee is a term where they have no land of thier own
@@jimmynolet3752absolutely
We should also look at Hamas in a more differentiated way. This is what I've learned: Hamas is the government and administration in Gaza. Their military fraction are the Al Qassam Brigades.
Oh yeah! They even don´t know of their mutual existence! Not all readers here have IQ of 75.
@@waltermesser9737 You might be right with your assumption. Already made a test?
an example of bad government
@@rb239rtr One example of many?
Who build hamas,isn't Israel?they build hamas to inspired palestenians to evacuate to other country because of Hamas,Israeli government admitted it,remember Hamas is not Islamic Sunnah,they are Islamic Shia which is different faith of palestenians,don't be idiot 😂😂😂😂
western country says， it's not Israel committing genocide， it's us and Israel。
Hm
According to Hamas.....
@@A.Jankhiungru-kj7tz
Why dsnt israiil release hamas families from.prison?
@@lightbeings6243was ist mit den ca. 8000 Geiseln (auch unter 18 Jahre alt) in israelischen Gefängnissen 😳😖
@@user-uq3ie2io6e what ? Can you please explain clearly
How is one a refugee in their own country?
The legal issue lies in the reply to UN resolution 181.
Israel voted for a 2 state solution, while the Palestinians neither wanted to be part of Israel (Israel also didn't want that), nor did they want to be their own country.
So what legal citizenship do they have? They can't be Israeli citizens with full rights (unless naturalised by Israel, which many did), but they also don't belong to any other nation. Hence the "refugee" status.
They are not traditional refugees fleeing temporarily from some sort of natural disaster or war.
@@svr5423 where have these refugees been displaced to? If Gaza is part of Palestine which while it may not be recognized as a sovereign country, they function independently from all nations and have their own government. Refugees are people who were forced to leave their country. So what country was that? The Ottoman Empire…no, then the British Mandate…no. Israel…no. So what country? Palestine never had a country but has been self governing land for 70 years.
@@KomodoDojo Gaza is an autonomous zone with a devolved government. So while they function on their own, they are not fully autonomous (e.g. foreign policy, control of the adjacent maritime waters).
But yes, they have not been forced to leave "their" country, but as you usually cannot not be a citizen of a country, they legally have refugee status - I guess.
I fully agree that these are not refugees in the normal sense.
So much things would be easier if they would found their own nation and live in peace with their neighbors.
The were kicked out of part of Israel proper; Israel did not exist before 1948. The people were kicked out and forced to move into the areas presently considered occupied Palestine (Gaza, West Bank) or they just moved to other countries all together (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon) and these are the places where UNRWA operates.
Why after 75yrs Palestinians are still refugees. After all these years With all that money why aren't they living like every other normal country who also went through hard times and poverty. Doesn't make sense. Where's all that money gone. Why like other countries who don't rely on financial aid from other countries can on their own efforts be able out of war be able to build their own economy from scratch to a better life. Why hasn't Gaza???
I love Al Jazeera English. Stopped watching mainstream in NOV 2023
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaa Baaaaaaaaaaaa
Me too
check out the democracy now & electronic intifada
@user-pt6vg7jf6bare you a Zi&nist Fascist Racist Apartheid state of Israel supporter?? Sounds very much that you support mass genocide.
Same
No wicked shall go unpunished
Wicked witch of the West
I live in a western country and I do not approve of what is happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank etc. However, I, like many in the western world, feel we have no control over any of this - we feel helpless to stop it. It's disturbing and heartbreaking.
Their whole life are they refugees ? This is not understand
Gaza behoren the war like a normale life but they don't work for ❤all things they receive many things.
The borders closed and how the wapens come in the region ?!
For the unrwa is it a tactic
protest ! boycott ! , speak out like you just did but to your friends and family ! study history ! listen to Chris Hedges " the Death of Israel ". share it with friends , talk about it , risk arrest if you can and sit down strike , picket line , make a sign , draw a picture , hang it in your window or wear it on a T shirt , there are hundreds of things you can do write letters , call your congress person , call the president !
The belief that demo in democracy means the populous rules is cheap baloney.
Aljazerra should talk about it's journalist who doubles as a combat operative with Hamas and a Journalist of Aljazerra 😮
Any answer.
What is this journalist's name?
Why cant saudi arabia, UAE, turkey and other rich arab countries take over funding unwra???????????
They don't want the terrorism
@@jimmynolet3752The UN is a terrorist group in your opinion? Why Israel wanted to be part of the UN then?
Allied with US and are scared
@@user-us4uu1vm8h iran is not an ally, why cant it contribute more?
Because West are the champion of human rights and freedom
Why are Palestinians refugees are so special that they need a special organisation?
Because the Kazakhs stole the Palestinians land and the oppression on the people.
It's basically guilt, the western nations know they actually started this conflict and continue to support one side politically and militarily.
the western countries start many conflicts yet no special organization
Probably the same reason they are targeting Hamas? Pretty simple, actually.
@@sojiogungbesan5547 Conflict was started by Palestinians.
And no one asks how come it took Israel over three months to "reveal" this completely unproven "information" and why it was timed for the day after the ICJ rulings, or how come every Westen country, in unison, reacted to the (unproven) accusation immediately.
Israel has been providing evidence to the UN for 10
Years about UNRWA affiliation with terrorism.
Because Israelis are twisted people.
Isreal has been revealing this for years but nobody listened until some UNWRA staff where involved in combat operations on oct7 and the truth came out for all to see.
"Unproven information," why then did Philippe Lazzarini sack some of his employees? What's the rationale behind his actions?
You forgot to mention that everything that has come out of Palestine proved they are the liars while Isreal is showing the evidence. The whole world sees that
Maybe because they participated in the october events.
Lies
No lies. They did participate.
What happened in October? Oh, that's right. The "we shalt never forget" moment of the century that apparently concerns the whole galaxy. Even the alien ships parked behind the moon awaiting the right moment to invade are having a moment of silence in remembrance.
I pray for the voice of Palestine to be heard seen and FELT 💔 🙏🙏❤️🇵🇸🇵🇸
The Palestinian flag emoji. Is it on the youtube mobile app?
It was felt on Oct 7th.
Now Palestinians will listen to the response.
Your voice was head very clear on October 7th and the following months where not 1 Palestinian human being came out and publicly condemned raping mutilating beheading burning alive innocent civilians.
So now you begging for sympathy? Where is your pro peace movement? Where are all the brave Palestinians that can stand with Israelis who support 2 states and peace for all ? Where ?
Israelis stand alone fighting against the current situation and calling for peaceful end to the conflict You present yourself as the oppressed miserable suffering people and you cheer and celebrate when Israel is buried its deads.
That's hypocrite and showing zero intentions to end the conflict.
Not impressed from your broken heart. Sorry
Ppl have been standing for Palestine for decades...every freedom fighter like MLK, Malcolm X, Desmond TuTu, Nelson Mandela, etc. Now the Palestinian voice is being heard on a mass scale and the apartheid, occupying, terrorist regime of the Isrli govt will have to answer to it. Zionism is a racist, ethno-nationalist, Jewish supremacist political movement and the state of Isrl needs to be dismantled. One democratic state with equal rights for ALL citizens is the way towards peace. But without justice, there can be no peace so they must answer for their crimes. If anyone still supports Isrl, it is bc of willful ignorance. Ceasefire, end the occupation and Free Palestine from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
I hope you’re donating money to them then
Any allegations first and foremost must be investigated
they were for 10 years and ignored by the UN
@@KomodoDojo
Netaniahou dictator and his extreme far right party existed for 20-30 years and the West closed eyes! 😱
Before that occupier must be tried in international court
@@faniarethas2716 dictators don’t hold elections like those who control Hamas
@@faniarethas2716 Dictators like Hamas do not hold elections.
Why did the UN sack the staff involved without exposing them or investigating more staff?
Because an investigation will expose them of their corruption and complicity with Hamas and terror.
Israel vets all employees...they get a list. So they had no choice.
Because it is all the stuff
Because they felt it best to do that to protect the aid it lost anyway
@@constantineblyuz5786stop lying
I imagine the evidence provided was enough for people to stop supporting unrwa. Professional victims
She is studdering because AlJazeera can’t cover these lies anymore.
Truth well spoken.
Hahahaha,,, you said it correct
refugees, resistances ....if that is just lies then perhaps you should just keep on watching Fox news.
@@ekwongisondem8202she spoke truth
How despicable to denigrate a person who has an admirable record of academic achievement for speaking in a certain manner rather than focusing on the legitimacy and value of what they are saying. So typical of a mean minded and petty mentality typical of a culture that seeks to destroy what it cannot overcome. Have some dignity.
The donors can easily decide to withdraw support. Its taxpayers money. They would not care if gazans will go hungry. After all hamas can only waste such money and use it for terror.
HOW ABOUT THE TUNNEL UNDER UNWRA BUILDING..? WHTA IS THE DEFENSIVE NOW ? DO YOU HAVE ONE?
Because these folks don’t want to admit that UNRWA is part of Hamas.
What tunnels all lies the Ex Prime Minister Yahud Burack said the tunnels were made by Israel in 1980.
Name an independent organisation who has verified the Offence Force's claims
@@morbidsearch Actually UNRWA itself
Excellent conversation!!! Every single country withholding funds is complicit in the suffering and massive death toll in Gaza. Shame on them!!!!
Why does the world owe anything to them? You sound like the beggars i have to tell no to everyday. Nobody owes you a debt.
Your existence is irrelevant
@@northboy7996 for 75 years the Palestinians have been, and continue to be denied their basic human rights as defined under international law. mainly western countries caused this, and have continued it, either directly or indirectly. so yes, there is a debt owed.
If you doubt that, bear in mind the reparations that continue to be paid by germany for the Holocaust to this day.
Really ? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia , Kuwait, Quater, the UAE and other oil rich Arab countries step in and cover the funding ? It would be a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of their oil money.
It's charity my friend and we are under no obligation to give. We funded it for 75 years and all it did was teach hate,terrorism and stoke desires for war. No other refugees get to pass down refuggee status or remain a refuggee once given citizenship in a new country. No ther country had its own refuggee agency. If the arab nations want to fund it they are more than welcome but the west is hopefully done funding it completely. If the Palestinians didn't have their own refuggee agency they might not ne so willing to wage unwinnable wars
We are not responsible for their decisions. They did this to themselves. Instead of choosing peace and prosperity they chose terror and hatred.
We get to chose where to give our money and its not for you to decide.
Because even UNRWA should/can be held accountable for the crimes committed on Oct 7th...Top officials should be prosecuted/resign for failing their customers.
How many corporations are under investigation for the crimes of their employees? Not many. Not likely m
😂 first they're celebrating in the streets, and now they're moaning??!! Really???
😂😂😂 exactly ❤❤
The Palis don´t realize that there is always a tomorrow.
Same as the zionists and tomorrow is when they will reap what they sowed@@waltermesser9737
Stupid remark. How about IDF and settlers dancing around like idiots...
Yes, it's important to ask the right questions.
i didn't see any right questions they asked. i could think of a new line of questioning that would not be so narrated.
@@jimmynolet3752 What question would you ask?
Abby Martin is a million times more courageous than any politician in office
Because he's well paid
UNRWA is hamas. HAMAS is Unrwa. These people have yet to explain why there are headquarters of hamas underneath their buildings
It's their money they can decide how they wish to donate it.
It is NOT their money, its the PEOPLES money! And people should have a say in it! US sends billions of tax payers money to the z-nists dont tell me every single us tax payer agrees on this! Im quite sure the majority of us citizens are against it, specially now that a lot of them know what the money is being used for!!!
YES, IT IS THEIR MONEY, HOWEVER THEY CREATED THE SITUATION FOR WHICH THEY ARE LIABLE.!!!! MOREOVER,. PALESTINE WAS AND IS PALESTINIAN LAND THEREFORE NEITHER UK NOR IT''S CAHOOTS HAD ANY RIGHT WHATSOEVER TO GIFT IT TO THE ZIONISTS WHO WITH GENOCIDAL ACTS ETHNICALLY CLEANSED THE IDIGENOUS PALESTININAN PPL FROM THEIR LAND AND TURNED THEM INTO REFUGEES.
Here’s my never ending question to which am aware of the likely reason but one should ask LOUDLY why 👈🏽are Palestinians refugees on or from THEIR homeland?
Unbelievable and restoring the life saving aid taken away without evidence of accusations needs to be restored immediately ‼️
CEASEFIRE as a humanitarian effort must happen ASAP
Ty
Targeting? Its western country money, they have every right to decide if they want to donate or not.
16 countries is only one country more than 50% of Western countries.
UNRWA needs to just set up an individual global citizen donation option on its site. Depending on countries to donate to your cause will lead to political manipulation through funding, like the US political system with lobbying.
Viva Capitalism....so nasty to even propose that.
Who would connect the banking logistics for it to run. They own all banking systems.
Some of the countries who have cut funding, believe UNRWA is affiliated with a terrorist organisation and will confiscate your donation - because financing terrorist groups is illegal.
@abuahmad67 Iran or China can try. It can even happen through Russian Rubles, I'm sure countries are still holding large sums, although they are worth nothing to them because they are controlled by the west. West haters might still find the Russian Ruble useful.
UNRWA only wants USD and not other currencies
Stop with the unwra. No to unwra
This is madness !
THIS…IS…SPA-
The real madness is to see an humanitarian agency very linked to terrorism
AIPAC and other financial lobbies bribes senior officials to support Israël, in return billions of American Tax payers working like slaves for their Masters in Israël
Yes, the Palestinians are in state of war. Even Abbas not really saying anything is being attack because he being perceived has not joining in on the attacks with Israel.
They speak as if the holding of hostages is legitimate, & are not heinous ongoing war crimes ... They speak as if using hostages as bargaining chips is legitimate, & are not ongoing gross violations of several human rights ... They speak as if the use of civilians as human shields is legitimate war strategy, & not ongoing war crimes ... They speak as if the use of civilian spaces for military operations is legitimate military strategy, & not ongoing war crimes ... They speak as if Hamas has a legitimate right to self-defense by any possible means, as if the value of Hamas leaders weigh more than the lives of innocent hostages & Palestinian civilians ...
Tell that to Izrahell who is holding thousands of hostages
Exactly!
@@leslie-annmills-gomez8763 В Израиле нет заложников, а есть преступники террористы, осуждённые судом! Не путайте Божий дар с яичницей!
OH dear I assume you're todays Zionist, judging by that load of bullshit you just posted.
@@leslie-annmills-gomez8763 Those are criminals, not hostages. Open a dictionary if you don't know the difference.
There are consequences to your actions ... for every cause there is a consequence .... Who knows better than Palestinians in Gaza??? Consequences...
When I gaze long enough into the abyss,
the abyss also gazes into me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
😂boy dont wrongfully use Frederick Nietzsche
Have you actually read anything or do you just steal quotes btw germany stands with the jews.
"Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
This applies to people like you and the rest of the perfectly programmed 😂
Don't pretend to be an intellectual😂
What kind of contextualising? Are we now to ignore the textbooks? The terrisits in hospitals? The ITC Complex under UNWRA HQ? Is this woman for real?
since 1950 the UNWRA has been providing services to Palestinian .What have UNWRA achieved in 75 years? Gaza has not improved, they have lived on international donations for 75 years. they should work and be able to live on their own money.
Tell that to UNICEF. Should UNICEF be disbanded because UNICEF relies on donations? Of course not.
@moraisisabel6424,...they would not have to rely on donations if their self determination was not restricted by Is***l.
Its because UNRWA members participated in 7/10 and Aljazeera is mute about it
1) Still waiting to see the evidence that Israel claims to have but refuses to release.
2) UNRWA employs over 13,000 Gazans. Statistically it would be amazing if none of them were Hamas.
@@BradloRaul So statistically, it is unwise to fund UNRWA even without the clear evidence that is present.
@@svr5423so you have evidence that the rest of the world does not have?
@@tsunamis82 The world has all the evidence. But we were talking about statistical probabilities.
The palestines must work and don't need UN for care for the people of Palestine
They aeconomie not dependence of Israel for water food and electricity
Great conversation! 👏👏👏
Ultimately, West's hidden face is revealing.
Yes done with radical extremism
Evil
Everyone can say the same thing to Islam. ☪️
It took 40 Years for the USA to sign on to the 1948 UN Genocide Convention... and it was the atrocities committed by the U.S. on the N. American Tribal Nations which fronted the delay. Ironically, in 1987, it was a Congressman from Delaware who finally signed on for the U.S... none other than "acting" President Joseph Robinette Biden.
"I mean, there might be a public outcry for awhile... but then, you know what happens? People forget. They don't remember, they don't care. They just don't care. It's just gonna' be another everyday, common tragedy."
"Yeah, it's -- it's not common."
"Don't do somethin' you're gonna' regret for the rest of your life... You're gonna' regret..."
"I ain't got nothin' but regret, Bill..."
"You have a family... Children. Don't make it more of a tragedy..."
- Bill Hale and Ernest Burkhart talking in jail...
Killers of the Flower Moon
If you tell a Lie often enough, and loud enough... it becomes Israel.
They were celebrating before. What happened?
Well done Laila, Anne, Steve, and AJ
States who recieve free aid have no right to start war, if so you loose all that aid and given the best wishes and luck..
Great reporting as always
Don't have to cry. Other countries can fund UNRWA for example South Africa or even corporate organization like Al Jazeera. After all it's only amounts to peanuts.
Al Jazeera is state media of Qatar. So maybe Qatar can do something
@@KomodoDojo Money is better in my wallet than yours. lol Let's get America to pay for it.
South Africa's been raped by the ANC: they had to prostitute their foreign policy to the Mullahs.
Every nation or group of people needs to learn to be self-sufficient and not survive on charity for a ridiculous 75 years.
How??? Israel controls everything...what comes in and what goes out! Israel does not allow the Palestinians to be economically independent
Yes you can. let them freely have air sea and land access.
Let Palestinians operate their own land, borders, regional waters, airspace, natural resources, and economies. Israel disallows all of these. One example: Israel claims to own all the rainwater, and only allows Palestinians to collect small amounts. To enforce this, they filled all of the Palestinian cisterns with concrete years ago.
Let Palestinians create their own power grids, water systems, wifi, etc. Stop forcing them to buy all of this from Israel. An example: Gazans have to purchase water from their own aquifer from Israel, who uses most of it for the kibbutzim in the area. Water is available to Palestinians for 3-4 hours a day, while Israelis have full swimming pools and water is available 24/7.
@mandelmon They freely have air, sea and land access else how did Haniyeh, Mashal and the likes end up in Qatar, Hamdan and Arouri and the likes end up in Lebanon?
@@mandelmonUNRWA supports Palestinians in other countries outside of Israel and they are still dependent on UNRWA and have not all progressed off this financial support.
Because the UNRWA IS HAMAS!!!! The game is Over
Yeah
..Someone needs to discuss "Refugees" in perpetuity...meaning "DONATIONS" in perpetuity".
One could suggest that had Israel not held Gaza under an Iron fisted Blockade, and allowed them a Seaport, Airport, and the possibility of foreign investments and tourism then Palestinians in Gaza might have been able to support themselves through a home grown Economy instead of having to rely on UNRA for their continued existence. Thats a concept that might have been worth exploring, instead of Israel's relentless brutal Occupation.
Finally, commen sense. Exactly.
Free Palestine ✌️
Oh, that was the goal.
However, Gaza responded with violence, hence the strict controls on Israel's side.
Egypt came to the same conclusion.
@@svr5423 You are misrepresenting a lie for the truth of the situation. Benjamin Netanyahu openly boasts of how he's used every dirty trick in the book to prevent a Palestinian State from coming into existence. That includes playing the Palestinian authority off against Hamas to keep the leadership divided so he can claim there was no one he could negotiate with. Any violence that resulted was from his abuse of the Palestinians by the IDF which served his purpose of painting the Palestinians as animals or savages whenever they lashed out in vengeance. It has always been about grabbing more and more land/settlements for him and his Zionists cohorts. That my friend is the Stones cold truth.
@@svr5423 ,...not in a vacuum.
@@happytimeharry363 Yes, Palestinian terror has been going on since over 75 years now. It's hard for them to change their habits.
The UN shouldn’t serve dogs & therefore should not be in the Palestinian enclave .
God Bless Israel & her good thorough work 🇮🇱
It’s unfortunate this video does not show the anti-Israel propaganda the UNRWA teachers promote.
Aljazerra is the last place to see such videos my dear friend
UNWRA has made many Hamas leaders overnight billionaires 😢and many Palestinians poorer 😂
The main winner is Israel that gets free money USD 4 billion per year bcos AIPAC lobby
Maybe gaza government should take care of their own people instead of holding their hands out and begging other governments to carry that burden.
@jeremiahrodriguez1014,...maybe they should not be restricted from self-determination by a certain other country.
Palestine is under an embargo. They are dependent of Israel
Ask South Africa(ANC) to donate.
18:35 so, the golf states do not help because of ... why should they? Then why should the west keep paying? Why not just let us all watch and let history take its course?
There are many groups of people around the world dealing with starvation and War. The rohingya the uyghur, the Sudanese etc.... what makes the Palestinians so deserving of my attention? If you say it's because they're Muslim...then you've ready lost me. The history between my people, Islam, Christianity and Judaism is not a go one. Why should I interfere with their fate? They chose it....together.
All 16 country donated money to UNWRA which were used for funding HAMAS
You all know it's more than those 12
So why do we see endless Unrwa bags inside Gaza tunnels?
If 12 can be involved in combat operations with Hamas against Isreal then imagine how many would be involved in other ways with Hamas
What about Tunnels found under UN HQ. How did UN say that they had vacated the premises🤔
It seems that the Palestinians don't believe the tunnels were there in the first place or something it was all set up by Isreal.....not that i agree with thier reasoning
There are tunnels all over. Where's the proof they were Hamas. Why do we take Israel's word for it . Israel is killing children, accusing babies of being Hamas. Where is the limit?
Is a liar don't be brainwashed by Israel propaganda
There are tunnels under our local hospital. Doubt if any Hamas are there. Hospitals and large buildings the world over use tunnels for their network cables, servers, water pipes, sewage and electrical cables. Easy to access and not interfering with the building above. I have actually been in the tunnels under our hospital. Haven’t seen a server room in the building though.
Welcome to Aljazeera propaganda station.
I've never heard of children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren of refugees also being considered refugees. Can someone please explain how that works? How does refugee status get passed down through generations when nowhere else in the history of refugees has this been the case? How can a person be a refugee from a place they have never been? My wife's family are refugees from Syria and have been in the US for 30 years, but my wife doesn't consider herself a refugee. Her family still has property in Syria, but never expects to be able to go back and live there. Can someone please help me with this?
There is no need for a separate organization. UN’s many other agencies can handle it
None of this could / would have happened if Hamas did not launch their horriffic massacre on 7 October, taking 250 innocent hostages (the majority of which have not been released as yet) ... A sobering thought ... Furthermore, all this can be stopped in an instant by Hamas releasing the remaining hostages & surrendering ... Another sobering thought ... So, who's to blame for starting this ... & who's to blame for prolonging this???
Netanyahu for failing to secure their borders they had intelligence that this may happen but they ignored it
During the last cease fire, Hamas released over 100 hostages. Netanyahu is opposed to negotiations. Releasing the hostages isn’t his primary objective.
The lies of the Jew is coming to an end
I’m always excited when I have an Aljazeera notification for this program “Bottom Line “❤
A religious issue, so no secular solution.
Fun fact:
The organisation was supposed to be called UNWAR, but somebody made a typo.
israel should’ve been called genocide state of israel but someone made a typo
spot on 😂😂 sinwar was supposed to be called sinful warmonger
Please don’t stop speaking about the freedom of Palestine 🇵🇸
What about east bank pals? Or it is fine for them to be under jordanian rule without self determination?
When UNRWA was created, many of the oil-rich Arab nations of the Persian Gulf were not as wealthy as they are now, nor have the political clout they possess today. However, that doesn't mean they cannot take up the slack when the "major donors" to UNRWA abruptly abandon their customary duties. Israel indeed has a responsibility to make sure the Palestinian territories under its authority have the essentials for living. The problem is that Israel has no regard for its international obligations or international law. It has violated countless UN resolutions. Knowing this, it makes little sense for others to wait for Israel to get an epiphany and assume its responsibilities under international law.
The comparatively lackluster role of Gulf Arab governments in funding UNRWA or providing a robust alternative may have something to do with their conflicting attitudes toward Gaza. On the one hand, they realize that ordinary Palestinians could use their financial assistance. On the other hand, very liberal financial assistance to Gaza could remove what little social pressure existed on non-state actors like Hamas if they felt unobligated to do any social spending. There's no love lost between Hamas and these Arab governments, which might explain Netanyahu's comment about Arab governments "quietly" backing his military operations in Gaza. 🙂
Those arabs must get the job and stop recebi an aid
The woman with the black hair is so bad in lying 😂
Ok so do know the truth?
We all see the evidences ! She's telling the truth
@@valentinadivina2229 Evidence of UNRWA staff involvement in combat operations into Israel on oct7?.... evidence of UNRWA staff being killed inside israel on oct7?....Wake up my dear friend 😊
@@valentinadivina2229 Evidence of UNRWA staff involved in combat operations inside Israel?... evidence of UNRWA staff being captured inside Israel?.... what evidence?
@@akpewebiakolo7517 Actually that's the only case Israel have NOT give evidence that UNRWA have staff working for Hamas. Your right for that but for the rest he's is telling the Trutg 100%
Are they targeting UNRWA?
Anne Irfan is married to an ex-IOF soldier who wants the genocide to continue until the ‘israeli’ captives are released! She’s not Palestinian, but she’s been commissioned to write a book on Gaza….
I want to know what Israeli politicians' used UNRWA as a slush fund to line their own pockets. Israel had to vet all the employees and funding. Where did the money go? That responsibility and accountability is 100% on Israel.
No more money for haters , those who care go earn in islamic country and send to them
The US Senate passed a bill last Tuesday permanently defunding UNRAW.
Shocking!
Right move
With this, UNRWA is finished because the US is the biggest contributor to UNRWA.
Its our money and its our decision just ask arab countries to fund more cause we christian countries dont want to feed terrorists
With the US and allied partners withdrawing support, UNRWA - HAMAS unholy alliance is finished.
Targeting or NOT patronizing UNRWA's criminal and barbaric practices? There is no way that Israelis would turn a blind eye to UNRWA's evil behavior like CCP, Russia, Saudi...
اللَّهُمَّ أَصْلِحْ لِي دِينِي الَّذِي هُوَ عِصْمَةُ أَمْرِي، وَأَصْلِحْ لِي دُنْيَايَ الَّتِي فِيهَا مَعَاشِي، وَأَصْلِحْ لِي آخِرَتِي الَّتِي فِيهَا مَعَادِي وَاجْعَلِ الْحَيَاةَ زِيَادَةً لِي فِي كُلِّ خَيْرٍ، وَاجْعَلِ الْمَوْتَ رَاحَةً لِي مِنْ كُلِّ شَرٍّ
For how many decades will this extraordinary and unique program last, accompanying and funding an exponential population growth, maintaining an otherwise perfectly capable group of people in a position of assistance and subservience?
BOT 🤖
Ask Israel why they deliberately repress the economies of Gaza and the West Bank. Ask them why Palestinians aren't allowed to develop their own power grids, water systems/purification, wifi, etc.
@@rachaelik It's time for Palestinians to become self sufficient. 75 years is enough, they don't rely on western help anymore.
Ask Israel they are the ones responsible for a genocide that lasted 76 years now
@@rachaelik Don't forget that they found lots of natural gas under Gaza around 2005. Israel wants that natural gas reserves worth hundred of billions. That's a big reason why. Google it it is very sad. Palestinians are sitting on a lot of money
How many sacks of flour can be bought daily for, say, $400 million each year??? With the BILLIONS going into UNRWA's coffers annually, why should there be a famine imminent in Gaza???
The money is not only for feeding but paying staff, services, etc. What you should be asking is how comes up to almost 4 billion to Israel yearly, and now 14 billion for the War. This year alone up to 18 billion.
It goes into building tunnels and buying weapons, not to forget salaries for the staff affiliated to Hamas
@@rahuln8138
Lies!!!!!
@@faniarethas2716just where do you think the money to dig tunnels come from? IRAN 🤷🏼♂️?
Costs millions to build a hospital. Schools aren’t cheap either. Israeli war costs billions, funded by UK, USA etc.
isn't it best? Arab self reliance & neighborly assistance. It's time!
Goodness me, what a one sided panel this is. The brunette (excuse me for forgetting her name) accuses Israel of using the UNWRA issue an opportunity to muddy the waters and then after mentioning the ICJ decision just goes ahead and says it 'IS'genocide. The blonde lady blames the international community for not allowing Palestinians their own state when it has been the Palestinians who, over and over, refused their own state. If you are going to contribute to the conversation, you cannot distort the facts to suit your agenda. They should have got that dude from UN Watch to be there, Hilael or something. But of course Al Jazeera is a Qatar state run media company, Qatar who houses the leadership of Hamas, who are very rich, in their own state.
My thoughts exactly every time I hear Mark Regev on the news. You're absolutely right. He should not distort the facts to suit his agenda. But of course his association is state run and also very, very, very rich and well funded to the point I was beginning to believe, but then realized the logic of the practical impossibility that the whole planet may be interpreting things wrong. Could that be the case?
So western allies are fully complicit in dismantling unrwa..shamelss
its not the mandate of westen countries to give funds to UNRWA if it is a no go look for funds elsewhere to build tunnels
Notice that the "major donors," who have forfeited their duties as donors, claim to be 'suspending' their aid to UNRWA rather than permanently ending it. It might be because they could 'punish' Gazans for a brief moment when they most needed assistance while not having to deal with the fallout of eliminating UNRWA. This strategy places UNWRA in limbo, where it falls short of functioning as it should but, at the same time, won't undergo a replacement. It gives the "major donors" a political cover to weaponize their defunding of UNRWA for a decided-upon period until said donors feel the weaponization has achieved its goals. 🤓
So in other words the unwar was not for Palestinian but for Israel not returning to Europe but Palestinian as a refugees in Europe
The government is not desolved for few staff misconduct.
The European government decision to not supporting Palestine is not based on the few staff misconduct.
No, it was based on the lack of shame and principles of the main countries like uk, germany, france! Because they know that the z-nists have no problem in lying and they have done it many many times before! The z-nists have no credit at all.
No, it was based on the lack of ]sha me[ and principles of the main countries like uk, germany, france! Because they know that the z-nists have no problem in lying and they have done it many many times before! The z-nists have no credit at all...
Isn't it logical that an aid organisation is in a government's way that wants to remove a population from its land?
AIPAC and other financial lobbies bribes senior officials to support Israël, in return billions of American Tax payers working like slaves for their Masters in Israël
UNRWA only gets paid if Palestinians stay refugees, the agency's incentive is for Palestinians to NOT have a state. No wonder this has been happening for 75 years.
Excellent interview, very enlightening and informative.
this a complete disgrace on the part of Islam on the Hebrew side...
You all think we're dumb....hahaha. that's funny. Educate yourself FIRST on the subject, then report...cherry picking the truth is not reporting. You left a lot out. Useless news...
more than 70 years US and western contries has donated to palestine thr UNWRA. but HAMAS has misused it.
donation should be from muslim countries .... 😢
Hamas did not exist 70 years ago, that does not make any sense.
Countries should know better instead of acting without any proof 🤬
Thank you Al Jazeera
Condemn evil and have peace
No money for u unrwa 😂?
No money to Israel.. register aipac as foreign agent