International aid agencies have said they are “deeply concerned and outraged” at the “reckless” decision by major donors to cut funding to a UN Palestinian aid agency after Israel accused some of its workers of taking part in Hamas’ 7 October attack.
“We are shocked by the reckless decision to cut a lifeline for an entire population by some of the very countries that had called for aid in Gaza to be stepped up and for humanitarians to be protected while doing their job,” the coalition of 21 agencies, including Oxfam, Save the Children and ActionAid, said in a statement on Monday.
More than 10 western countries including the US, UK and Germany said they would suspend funding to UNRWA, which provides aid to more than 5.6 million Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, after the agency said it had launched a probe into 12 staff members who allegedly took part in abductions and killings on 7 October.
The agency has sacked nine of those accused. Two others are missing and one is dead. The UN in New York has also launched a high-level investigation into the alleged acts, which its secretary general, António Guterres, described as “abhorrent”.
12 is the main number I have heard repeated over and over.
9 captured, 1 dead, 2 missing
Do you have more information than that or are you judging the entire organization by less than a tenth of a percent?
The Wall Street Journal said Monday that intel Jerusalem shared with the US indicated that of the roughly 12,000 Gazan employees of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, some 1,200 have ties to either Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
This kind of info is not copied by various intelligence agencies. What they do is use available sources of their own for verification. They write their own report, along with a degree of confidence factor and send it uphill. It is this info that various countries used to determine to stop funding.
Ties to could be as simple as having family which does.
Not even slightly surprising given the political climate.
It would be like me judging you for your cousin being a low level proud boys member.
Always consider the wording and the source.
The information is coming from the IDF of all damn people.
Remember those 40 decapitated babies?
How about those people whose name was on that list on the wall that was actually days of the week.
I have 0 doubt that some people involved have affiliation with Hamas, just like I have no doubt that oil money is running America, and that the cartels have people in border control.
It’s not association. They’re claiming about 10% of their staff are actually members of Hamas:
Also, the 40 decapitated babies claim is a long-debunked myth and a claim never made by either the Israeli government or the IDF. It began and spread on social media.
That babies were found beheaded was later confirmed by pathologists:
And the days of the week?
You’re asking if the hospital calendar had names or the days of the week? It’s not disputed by anyone that it had days of the week. Israel formally issued a correction shortly after releasing it.
After they got called out by half the world.
The original post and the correction were four hours apart.
I don’t believe that was on accident.
Everyone knows retractions never get as much attention.
You say one thing knowing it will take off and then quietly announce your retraction after your lies take off.
Basic counterintelligence move
I’m pretty sure when you’re an employee of the UN, you sign a contract saying you have no ties to terrorist organizations.
While you’re pretty sure that happens, I am 100% certain that people lie on their resumes all the time.
If my cousin was a dumbass, and I knew I wouldn’t get a job because of him, I wouldn’t bring up the fact that he was my cousin.
Would you if you were living in poverty?
Doesn’t matter what their resume says. The UN organization itself has the responsibility to screen their employees as they are finding out.