In the aftermath of the ICJ’s genocide ruling against Israel, the Biden administration has slashed funding to UNRWA, the UN agency that provides life-saving aid to 2.2 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza. The agency is crucial for the delivery of food and health care services, and the funding cut has been criticized for potentially starving Palestinian refugees and for the devastating impact it could have on their survival. This move by the U.S. follows the ICJ's mandate for Israel to ensure the unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and has led to accusations of Western complicity in the hardships faced by Palestinians.
Donald Trump pulled America's funding for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian people, because it was revealed the organization was a shell for funding terrorism and anti-Israel, anti-America, anti-West rot. Joe Biden's... https://t.co/AkGtrzYSYw
THREAD: Biden has cut off funding to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which provides life-saving aid to 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza every day. Humanitarian orgs and advocates are warning about the devastating impact this will have in Gaza. Listen to them:
Trump had cutoff UNRWA. Of course, Biden funded it like never before. The UN is an evil institution operating in our midst. It’s headed by a Hitlerian, its blue helmets rape, and its employees promote Palestinian terrorism in the Middle East, including direct involvement in the…
By cutting off UNRWA funding, the Biden administration and other Western governments have turned their wrath against the victims of Israel’s war on Gaza, targeting a people whose survival now depends on international charity. https://t.co/4r1KdGXL2D
President Biden has cut all funding to humanitarian group @unrwa when Palestinians need it most. 🧵
The West’s capitulation to Israel by cutting off funding for UNRWA underscores its complicity in Israel’s war crimes, starving Palestinian refugees in war-torn Gaza while lavishing billions in military aid on Israel. https://t.co/4r1KdGXL2D
Reeling from the ICJ’s genocide ruling, Israel attacked the credibility of UNRWA, the UN agency that provides food and health care to Palestinian refugees. Now Joe Biden and other Western leaders are cutting funding for the vital humanitarian aid agency. https://t.co/4r1KdGYiSb
Just days after the highest court in the world ordered Israel to ensure the unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, our government pulled funding from the area’s primary humanitarian agency, the UNRWA. They are complicit in what happens next. https://t.co/7cZF4r1hEG