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Israeli MPs vote to ban UN refugee agency

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The Knesset has overwhelmingly approved two bills against the UNRWA, which is accused of aiding Hamas.

The Israeli parliament has adopted two bills blocking the work of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which helps Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza.

The UNRWA was established in 1949, to deal with Palestinian refugees after the creation of the state of Israel and the ensuing Arab-Israeli war. West Jerusalem has accused it of aiding and abetting Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups.

Members of the Knesset voted 92-10 in favor of the bill declaring that UNRWA will no longer “operate any institution, provide any service, or conduct any activity, whether directly or indirectly” in Israel.

“UNRWA long ago ceased to be a humanitarian aid agency, but in addition to it being an integral supporter of terror and hate, is an agency to eternalize poverty and suffering,” Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Yuli Edelstein said ahead of the vote on Monday. He also cited Israeli claims that UNRWA employees had participated in the October 7 Hamas attack.

The UN fired nine UNRWA employees in August, after suspicions emerged that they might have been involved in the Hamas incursion last year. Another ten employees were cleared of any wrongdoing.

After the bill passed, Edelstein called it “historic” and said it amounted to “elimination of one of the arms of terror that acted under UN auspices.”

The bill technically applies only to the eastern part of Jerusalem, which Israel claims as its sovereign territory. That is why the Knesset adopted a second bill, with a vote of 87-9, that canceled the 1967 treaty between Israel and UNRWA that allowed the agency to operate on Israeli-controlled territory. The second bill bars all Israeli government agencies or representatives from contacting UNRWA beginning 90 days from passage.

Israel’s Jerusalem Ministry will take over UNRWA’s responsibilities in East Jerusalem, using “independently funded” agencies that will not be a budgetary burden, MK Dan Illouz of the ruling Likud told reporters. According to Illouz, the Israeli government is developing plans to provide an “educational framework” for children and “an alternative health framework” to everyone, which are currently classified.

All of the Arab members of the Knesset, as well as the opposition Democrats Party, voted against the bill. MK Ahmad Tibi, of the Hadash-Ta’al party, pointed out that some 90,000 UNRWA workers provide services to Palestinian refugees and that it should be shut down only when an independent Palestinian state is formed.

Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the UK had urged Israel not to outlaw the UNRWA, expressing “grave concern” with the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Washington has also informed Israel that not providing aid to the Palestinians could bring into question some of the US military aid to Israel.

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  1. UNRWA is a menace. They were flagged about 20 years ago for encouraging the Palestinian children to hate Jews and nothing was done then. After 7 October 2023, UNRWA employees were noted as some of the terrorists that committed the atrocity. Of note is that when the media shone a light on this truth, some EU countries removed their funding and support for UNRWA. However, once the media spotlight went onto other things, the same EU countries quietly started to support UNRWA again.

    I saw fairly recently (in the last year) interviews with Palestinian children in Arabic: When asked “Who teaches you to hate the Jews?” their reply was “UNRWA”.

    They KNOW UNRWA encourages hatred in the children and, therefore, guarantees future wars and “forever wars”, yet they still continue to support it.

    The situation is just stupid: It’s like defeating the Nazis in WW2 but then allowing some Nazis to continue to teach the German children their ideology. If this had really happened, then we would have had another large European war in the 1960’s and again in the 1980’s and so on up to the present day.

  2. UNGA is a virtue signalling neo-Marxist flag waving entity. The real destruction occurs with the tentacles of the UN: UNEP, IPCCC, UNESCO, WHO, ECOSOC. These entities need to be extinguished with extreme prejudice.

    • Those “entities” would not exist if there were no wars. And who are the warmongerers ? Those who ” lend” money to the belligerents to destroy each others and arrive to pick the bones of the destroyed countries like the vultures they are ?

    • Let’s hope that does not happen to either side: There are lots of people who just want to live in peace and be left alone.

      If what you think (or want) to happen does come to pass, then it will go planet wide and then “Book of Revelation” events will become reality. Humanity will not survive after that as a civilization, so let’s hope that it does not happen, OK? And let’s be blunt here, it does not only affect the humans but also the animals, plants and the Earth itself.

      To anybody in humanity, if your religion, ideology, cult or culture causes you to “hate the other” then just reject it. It’s that simple. Stop making excuses based upon history or intellect because they are just excuses and nothing more.

      • Hatred is surely not on my side. It is on the side of those who stole a land through terrorism, throw incendiary bombs on defenceless women and children in tent kamps, deny food and clean water and medicine to kids, shoot at playing kids , bomb hospitals and schools. Treat other human beings as vermine to be exterminated . You must have sunk very low to act like this. And don t say it is not true, thousand of people have seen and reported what the scum of the earth has been doing to palestina, libanon, syria etc . As well as the murder spree, assassinations, terror attacks of mossad, even towards its ” allies” going on for years and years. A dog does not bite the hand that feed him. That cannot be said of the inhabitants of this ghetto.
        And now you threat with nuclear armageddon ? What a shamelessness , you are below humanity !!!

        • Either you did not read my post correctly and completely, or English is not your first language and you did not understand it. Either way, the points you make are way off and filled with venom.

          “And now you threat with nuclear armageddon ? What a shamelessness , you are below humanity !!!”
          The above proves that you do not understand what I wrote or you are so filled with hate that you “see red” in everything that you read.

          Stop taking about history and using it as an excuse for violence against people in the present.

          • No i am not full of hatred, neither venom. Those are words to shame or disqualify any person who disagrees with you. I whish you had better arguments

            But, in the PRESENT,
            little children in gaza lose their mom : killed , have hardly any food or clean water because they live under the bombs and military aggression of you know whom, who are committing genocide or ethnic ” cleansing” on a civilian population .. Also Libanon is bombed with already thousands ” casualties” and dead. People who wanted to live in peace as you say and did nothing to deserve destruction of their home or life. And syria. And Iran etc. .
            That is the PRESENT, history in the making. And to me this is pure hatred. Not what i write, because what i write is not invented by me but for the whole world to see at the moment. Despite the many journalists shot dead by you know whom.
            PRESENT confirmed by good people such as col. Mcgregor and Scott Ritter and many others.
            The hubris of ” greater israhell” i would call it.
            And those who support it are no better, also full of hatred towards muslims countries.

            As for my understanding of what you wrote , i quote ” it does not only affect the humans, but also the animals, plants and the earth itself” if that is not a threat of total nuclear destruction , explain to me what you mean.

  3. They don’t want word of what they are up to, getting out. Bit late in the day, I’m afraid Israehell. The crime is there for all to see, save the blind mice of world politics, the UK and US.

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