The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is disastrous. In order to alleviate the suffering, Germany is yet again increasing its humanitarian assistance for people in the Palestinian territories. You can find out more here.
Giving terrorists the ability to control the population is enabling terrorism. That’s how they’ve extended and maintained control of the strip for nearly two decades.
That the UN allowed UNRWA to reach this level of involvement is a tragedy on its own but this isn’t news, it’s been reported on for over a decade. That the UN has failed to act is the reason why the people are going to suffer. Trying to guilt nations into supporting terrorism under the guise of aid is disgusting as well.
UNRWA needs to be dismantled and the care of the people of Gaza should be handled by the UNHCR going forward. If the UN can’t coordinate it’s own agencies to transition this, that’s yet another failure of the institution and I’m still not blaming the countries that are withholding funds at this point. They’re right to do so until guarantees that the money isn’t going to be used to further conflict can be established.
Giving terrorists the ability to control the population is enabling terrorism.
And leaving a people that has nowhere to go without food, medicine and water, what would that be? I’m asking genuinely, even if Hamas completely controls the distribution of aids within Gaza in order to maintain control, do you really believe that withdrawing these aids (and therefore causing death and starvation) would be at all justifiable?
That would be the problem Hamas wants. I absolutely believe this is an absolute requirement in order to dismantle Hamas.
The reality of this tragic situation is that the vast majority of deaths in this conflict are the direct result of the actions of the power group running the strip. Yes people will die in order to free Palestinians from the grips of Hamas. If only the UN had heeded the past decade of calls to investigate UNRWA this would have been avoided. The blame doesn’t fall on those who are pulling funding, it belongs to UNRWA and Hamas.
There is no answer here and that’s by design. You cannot continue with the current conditions, that must be obvious to everyone after the past few months.
Giving terrorists the ability to control the population is enabling terrorism. That’s how they’ve extended and maintained control of the strip for nearly two decades.
That the UN allowed UNRWA to reach this level of involvement is a tragedy on its own but this isn’t news, it’s been reported on for over a decade. That the UN has failed to act is the reason why the people are going to suffer. Trying to guilt nations into supporting terrorism under the guise of aid is disgusting as well.
UNRWA needs to be dismantled and the care of the people of Gaza should be handled by the UNHCR going forward. If the UN can’t coordinate it’s own agencies to transition this, that’s yet another failure of the institution and I’m still not blaming the countries that are withholding funds at this point. They’re right to do so until guarantees that the money isn’t going to be used to further conflict can be established.
And leaving a people that has nowhere to go without food, medicine and water, what would that be? I’m asking genuinely, even if Hamas completely controls the distribution of aids within Gaza in order to maintain control, do you really believe that withdrawing these aids (and therefore causing death and starvation) would be at all justifiable?
That would be the problem Hamas wants. I absolutely believe this is an absolute requirement in order to dismantle Hamas.
The reality of this tragic situation is that the vast majority of deaths in this conflict are the direct result of the actions of the power group running the strip. Yes people will die in order to free Palestinians from the grips of Hamas. If only the UN had heeded the past decade of calls to investigate UNRWA this would have been avoided. The blame doesn’t fall on those who are pulling funding, it belongs to UNRWA and Hamas.
There is no answer here and that’s by design. You cannot continue with the current conditions, that must be obvious to everyone after the past few months.