Following a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel must take steps to prevent genocide in Gaza, Western nations have reportedly cut funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the primary agency providing humanitarian support to the approximately 2 million displaced people in Gaza. This decision coincides with the day of the ICJ's ruling, which heavily relied on the testimony of UNRWA chief, Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini). Critics argue that instead of cutting military aid to Israel, Western governments have chosen to reduce aid to UNRWA, potentially exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
This doesn't look like compliance with the International Court of Justice ruling for Israel to "take all measures" to stop killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Yet Western governments are cutting aid to UNRWA, not to the Israeli military. https://t.co/wjUbgPXjVw
After the ICJ ruling, one would expect the EU and other western governments materially involved in Israel’s actions to re-assess their plans and cut armament and military aid to Israel. Instead, they cut funding to the main lifeline available for people to survive in Gaza. https://t.co/zHMsg4vmSF
Westerns governments are cutting aid to Gaza, and Israeli settlers and their government are stopping aid from getting in. All after the ICJ ruled that everything possible must be done to stop this genocide. https://t.co/5U1R8opaZD
It’s no coincidence that Israel and Western powers stepped up their war on the UNRWA on the very same day of the ICJ’s ruling stating that Israel is plausibly committing genocide in Gaza. The latter relied heavily on the testimony of the UNRWA chief, @UNLazzarini. Hence the need… https://t.co/G56llR5khE
In short, Western nations chose to react to the ICJ’s ruling that Israel must take steps to the prevent the genocide in Gaza by defunding the only agency providing basic humanitarian support to the 2 million displaced people in Gaza — i.e., by accelerating the genocide. https://t.co/005kEIqxvS