The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), responsible for aiding Palestinian refugees, could soon be declared a terrorist organization by Israel, stripping its staff of immunity and banning its operations within the country. This dramatic move, supported by the Knesset, stems from accusations that UNRWA has been aiding Hamas, although a UN review found no evidence for these claims. The proposal has significant implications for the millions dependent on UNRWA’s services, stirring international controversy and raising questions about the agency’s future.
Under several proposals that have been submitted in the Knesset, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) may be labeled a terrorist organization, its employees may lose their immunity, and its operations within Israel may be prohibited reports RT.
To assist Palestinian refugees, the UNRWA was founded in 1949 and is authorized to conduct operations in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. It has been charged by Israel with supporting Hamas and other terrorist Palestinian organizations.
“We are on the UN’s blacklist in any case. “All the excessive morality ended on October 7,” MK Yulia Malinovsky of Yisrael Beitenu, who advocated designating the UNRWA as a terrorist organization, stated on Monday. In Israel, she referred to the agency as “a fifth column.”
In the first reading of her bill, the Knesset voted 50 to 10. The legislation that would prohibit UNRWA from operating on Israeli soil and deprive its employees of the rights and advantages accorded to UN employees was also advanced by Israeli parliamentarians.
The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee was tasked with reviewing the three proposals in more detail. For them to take effect, two more votes must be passed.
More than 30,000 individuals work for UNRWA, which has helped Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank as well as those requesting asylum in nearby nations by providing food assistance, medical care, education, and social services. More than two million people, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, rely on it to survive.
Twelve UNRWA personnel allegedly participated in the October 7 Hamas attacks, which resulted in over 1,100 Israeli deaths and about 250 Israelis being taken hostage in Gaza, according to claims made by the Israeli government in January. West Jerusalem further asserted that 190 UNRWA employees permitted the assailants to utilize the organization’s buildings as safe havens in exchange for intelligence and logistical support to Hamas.
The US, UK, Germany, and other 18 donor countries stopped providing financing to UNRWA as a result of the allegations. But in April, a UN-commissioned independent inquiry declared that Israel had not produced any proof to back up its allegations.
In retaliation for the October 7 attacks, Israel invaded Gaza on foot and used artillery and air power. As of Monday, the Gaza Health Ministry’s official figures put the number of Palestinian deaths at around 39,000 and the number of injuries at almost 90,000.
Recently, GreatGameInternational reported that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories illegal and called for its immediate end.
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Imagine a country where former Prime Ministers can openly boast about being involved in political assassination!
Confessions / Boasts of a Zionist terrorist as reported in ‘The Times of Israel, the principal newspaper of the terrorist state.
Yitzhak Shamir was Prime Minister of ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ serving two terms 1983-84, 1986-92.
There is no doubt that Shamir played a vital role in the assassination, as he did in the later assassination of Count Bernadotte.
Yitzhak Shamir: Why we killed Lord Moyne
“….Lord Moyne was the highest British official in the Middle East …. and because we fought against the British in this area, we took him for a target. This was the main reason for his assassination”.
Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish Nobleman and Diplomat in WW2, he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners from many nations from the Nazi German Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Bernadotte was assassinated on Friday 17 September 1948 by members of the group Lehi, a Zionist paramilitary militant organization, commonly known in the West as the Stern Gang.
Well that’s gratitude for you!!! I wonder what Oscar Schindler would have thought?
How dare you try to negotiate a 2-state solution in Palestine!
https://www.timesofisrael.com/yitzhak-shamir-why-we-killed-lord-moyne/
Everybody who doesn’t worship Satan and bow down
to the Jewish “gods” is, of course, a “Nazi”,
a “Right-Wing Extremist” and a “Terrorist”!
According to the REAL Nazis, the “israelis”,
anyway!