Inevitable!!!!!!!!!! Mark
While the UN Secretary General and head of UNRWA calls for an investigation into what Israel alleges are crimes committed by some 12 Gazan UNRWA staff (among the 13,000) in the participation of the October 7th events, the leaders of the Western world including Australia just jump on board of these allegations and immediately cut aid to UNRWA. In so doing I believe they are all involved in yet further collective punishment, Australia among them, on an entrapped, starving, drenched, freezing, ill and injured 2.3 million Palestinians.
There is always context when dealing with Israel and the Palestinians. Israel has for years been determined to cut aid to the refugees both in Gaza and the West Bank. With Trump and our former PM Scott Morrison, they achieved part of their goal and aid to UNRWA was reduced by at least half. For years they have also been set on undermining the critical work of the UN agency. They have chosen now ( nearly three months after the event) to bring this information to the worlds attention just as the ICJ found that the South African charges of genocide against them contained merit. The ICJ found that there is a probability of Israel committing genocide in Gaza. This is no co-incidence.
Just let’s examine where the greatest damage done by the IDF over the past months in Gaza. There are 8 refugee camps in Gaza that contain 85% of the population, mostly relying on food aid and support from UNRWA and other UN agencies. these names have become very familiar to us, Jabalia, Nuseirat, Bureij and Maghazi camps among the eight, because these are where Israel has concentrated its military efforts and killed the most people. These camps were home to refugees who lived in abject poverty, already on the edge of existence, requiring food aid with unemployment among the highest in the world, close on 50% in 2023.
And in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank what do we see? The following camps that routinely come under Israeli fire are the refugee camps of Jenin, Balata, Nour Shams, Tulkarem, and the Aqbat Jabr camp. Since October 2023 until now, 361 Palestinians have been killed, including 92 children, across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The majority of these were killed by Israeli forces although Israeli settlers also killed Palestinians. The 2023 a total of 507 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, making it the highest number killed since OCHA started recording casualties in 2005. In the same period 4,358 Palestinians, including 657 children, have been injured in the West Bank – again mostly by Israeli forces and settlers. There has been a rapid rise in settler attacks with some 460 Israeli settler attacks in the past three months. (OCHA opt Flash update103 ).
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