Human Rights Watch: Sanctioners of UNRWA are complicit in the famine disaster in Gaza

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, Watchdog In response to the sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies against UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees), Human Rights announced that governments should continue to financially support UNRWA; Because this organization plays an important role in preventing a major humanitarian disaster and the risk of famine in the Gaza Strip. “It is dangerous and the UN is taking it seriously,” he stressed. The suspension of financial aid to the agency responsible for providing emergency food and water to more than 2.3 million people in Gaza is a callous indifference to experts’ warnings about the imminent danger of famine in the Gaza Strip.

The following is the statement of this human rights organization, despite the increased risk of famine in the Gaza Strip and the binding ruling issued by the Hague Court regarding the related case Because of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people, Tel Aviv has now openly announced that it is seeking to shut down the UNRWA agency, which is most responsible for providing essential aid to the Palestinians.

The organization added. If the UNRWA sanctioning countries do not withdraw from this action, they will be complicit in creating the current great disaster in the Gaza Strip.

While since the beginning of the Gaza war, UNRWA, like other international organizations, has not been able to provide an acceptable performance in helping the people of Gaza in the shadow of the brutal aggression of the Zionist regime and the heavy siege against this region, during the past days, news in the Western media and Zionist claims that a number of UNRWA employees participated in the operation of the Palestinian resistance under the name “Al-Aqsa Storm” on October 7, 2023.

In the circumstances that no There is no evidence and witness to confirm this claim, countries such as the United States, England, Italy and several other countries that support the crimes of the Zionist occupation in Gaza announced in a joint statement that they will stop their annual aid to UNRWA. It is noteworthy that this action of the United States, Europe and the Zionist regime took place shortly after the International Court of Justice issued a verdict against this regime for its crimes in Gaza, and this issue gives rise to the hypothesis that Israel by accusing UNRWA It plans to cover up its legal and diplomatic failure in the case of South Africa’s complaint against this regime at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. It is depriving it of more than 80 percent of its funding from the devastating war it waged against the largest Palestinian refugee camp, the Gaza Strip. In the sense that the decision of the mentioned countries is in the framework of strengthening Israel’s war measures and intensifying the blockade against the Palestinians; Because the aid to Gaza during this devastating war is distributed by UNRWA.

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