“HUNGER, DESPAIR, DEATH”
Israel says UNRWA workers took half within the Oct 7, 2023, Hamas assault on Israel, which sparked the conflict in Gaza. The UN has mentioned 9 UNRWA workers could have been concerned and had been fired. A Hamas commander in Lebanon – killed by Israel – was additionally discovered to have had an UNRWA job.
“By voting for these resolutions, you aren’t voting to guard humanitarian values, however to guard a company that has turn out to be a haven for terror,” Danon advised the meeting on Wednesday earlier than the vote.
UNRWA was established by the Normal Meeting in 1949 following the conflict surrounding the founding of Israel. The UN has repeatedly mentioned there isn’t any different to UNRWA, which offers assist, well being and training to thousands and thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Financial institution, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
“Gaza does not exist anymore. It’s destroyed. Palestinians are dealing with starvation, despair and loss of life,” Slovenia’s UN Ambassador Samuel Zbogar advised the meeting. “There is no such thing as a cause for this conflict to proceed. We want a ceasefire now. We have to deliver hostages residence now.”
The conflict within the Palestinian enclave started after Hamas gunmen on Oct 7, 2023, stormed into Israeli communities, killing round 1,200 individuals and taking about 250 hostages again to Hamas-run Gaza, in line with Israeli tallies.
Since then, Israel’s army has levelled swathes of Gaza, driving practically all of its 2.3 million individuals from their properties, giving rise to lethal starvation and illness and killing greater than 44,800 individuals, in line with Palestinian well being authorities, who don’t distinguish between combatants and non-combatants.
