I feel like this is more than one man. It's clear to me that the West are complicit. Our economys are based on arms, war & death. We take resources and pay very little for them. We need to look inwards. What do we want to be as humanbeings? Free Palestine ✌️
Ceasefire = protect Hamas and permit the radical Islamist movement that will never accept a two-state solution or peace with Israel to rearm and start attacking civilians again (that's been its mode of operation since its inception: suicide bombers and missiles directed at civilians. Sadly, Hamas promotes martyrdom as a spiritual good. Hamas built its military infrastructure under civilian infrastructure everywhere, including mosques, hospitals, schools...
Why do the western allies have to fund UNRWA.. why can't it be funded by Arabs Nations.. they make Billions a day and they give the bare minimum!! 🤷🏽♂️
No, no funding from anyone. Millions in the world have a difficult life and nobody is funding them. In 70+ years the UNRWA wasn´t able to create infrastructure, jobs, nothing. Go look for something to do and help yourself. These people are professional refugees.
WHY moved the palestinians from their land to form a jewish state israel , it is the germans who are responsible for the holacaust so they haveto used half of germany to create a jewish state ie former east germany but they wont because they think its better to make another race pay for their crimes
The legal issue lies in the reply to UN resolution 181. Israel voted for a 2 state solution, while the Palestinians neither wanted to be part of Israel (Israel also didn't want that), nor did they want to be their own country. So what legal citizenship do they have? They can't be Israeli citizens with full rights (unless naturalised by Israel, which many did), but they also don't belong to any other nation. Hence the "refugee" status. They are not traditional refugees fleeing temporarily from some sort of natural disaster or war.
@@svr5423 where have these refugees been displaced to? If Gaza is part of Palestine which while it may not be recognized as a sovereign country, they function independently from all nations and have their own government. Refugees are people who were forced to leave their country. So what country was that? The Ottoman Empire…no, then the British Mandate…no. Israel…no. So what country? Palestine never had a country but has been self governing land for 70 years.
@@KomodoDojo Gaza is an autonomous zone with a devolved government. So while they function on their own, they are not fully autonomous (e.g. foreign policy, control of the adjacent maritime waters). But yes, they have not been forced to leave "their" country, but as you usually cannot not be a citizen of a country, they legally have refugee status - I guess. I fully agree that these are not refugees in the normal sense. So much things would be easier if they would found their own nation and live in peace with their neighbors.
The were kicked out of part of Israel proper; Israel did not exist before 1948. The people were kicked out and forced to move into the areas presently considered occupied Palestine (Gaza, West Bank) or they just moved to other countries all together (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon) and these are the places where UNRWA operates.
Why after 75yrs Palestinians are still refugees. After all these years With all that money why aren't they living like every other normal country who also went through hard times and poverty. Doesn't make sense. Where's all that money gone. Why like other countries who don't rely on financial aid from other countries can on their own efforts be able out of war be able to build their own economy from scratch to a better life. Why hasn't Gaza???
We should also look at Hamas in a more differentiated way. This is what I've learned: Hamas is the government and administration in Gaza. Their military fraction are the Al Qassam Brigades.
Who build hamas,isn't Israel?they build hamas to inspired palestenians to evacuate to other country because of Hamas,Israeli government admitted it,remember Hamas is not Islamic Sunnah,they are Islamic Shia which is different faith of palestenians,don't be idiot 😂😂😂😂
I live in a western country and I do not approve of what is happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank etc. However, I, like many in the western world, feel we have no control over any of this - we feel helpless to stop it. It's disturbing and heartbreaking.
Gaza behoren the war like a normale life but they don't work for ❤all things they receive many things. The borders closed and how the wapens come in the region ?!
protest ! boycott ! , speak out like you just did but to your friends and family ! study history ! listen to Chris Hedges " the Death of Israel ". share it with friends , talk about it , risk arrest if you can and sit down strike , picket line , make a sign , draw a picture , hang it in your window or wear it on a T shirt , there are hundreds of things you can do write letters , call your congress person , call the president !
Your voice was head very clear on October 7th and the following months where not 1 Palestinian human being came out and publicly condemned raping mutilating beheading burning alive innocent civilians. So now you begging for sympathy? Where is your pro peace movement? Where are all the brave Palestinians that can stand with Israelis who support 2 states and peace for all ? Where ? Israelis stand alone fighting against the current situation and calling for peaceful end to the conflict You present yourself as the oppressed miserable suffering people and you cheer and celebrate when Israel is buried its deads. That's hypocrite and showing zero intentions to end the conflict. Not impressed from your broken heart. Sorry
Ppl have been standing for Palestine for decades...every freedom fighter like MLK, Malcolm X, Desmond TuTu, Nelson Mandela, etc. Now the Palestinian voice is being heard on a mass scale and the apartheid, occupying, terrorist regime of the Isrli govt will have to answer to it. Zionism is a racist, ethno-nationalist, Jewish supremacist political movement and the state of Isrl needs to be dismantled. One democratic state with equal rights for ALL citizens is the way towards peace. But without justice, there can be no peace so they must answer for their crimes. If anyone still supports Isrl, it is bc of willful ignorance. Ceasefire, end the occupation and Free Palestine from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
Why does the world owe anything to them? You sound like the beggars i have to tell no to everyday. Nobody owes you a debt. Your existence is irrelevant
@@northboy7996 for 75 years the Palestinians have been, and continue to be denied their basic human rights as defined under international law. mainly western countries caused this, and have continued it, either directly or indirectly. so yes, there is a debt owed. If you doubt that, bear in mind the reparations that continue to be paid by germany for the Holocaust to this day.
Really ? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia , Kuwait, Quater, the UAE and other oil rich Arab countries step in and cover the funding ? It would be a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of their oil money.
It's charity my friend and we are under no obligation to give. We funded it for 75 years and all it did was teach hate,terrorism and stoke desires for war. No other refugees get to pass down refuggee status or remain a refuggee once given citizenship in a new country. No ther country had its own refuggee agency. If the arab nations want to fund it they are more than welcome but the west is hopefully done funding it completely. If the Palestinians didn't have their own refuggee agency they might not ne so willing to wage unwinnable wars
We are not responsible for their decisions. They did this to themselves. Instead of choosing peace and prosperity they chose terror and hatred. We get to chose where to give our money and its not for you to decide.
And no one asks how come it took Israel over three months to "reveal" this completely unproven "information" and why it was timed for the day after the ICJ rulings, or how come every Westen country, in unison, reacted to the (unproven) accusation immediately.
Isreal has been revealing this for years but nobody listened until some UNWRA staff where involved in combat operations on oct7 and the truth came out for all to see.
You forgot to mention that everything that has come out of Palestine proved they are the liars while Isreal is showing the evidence. The whole world sees that
Because even UNRWA should/can be held accountable for the crimes committed on Oct 7th...Top officials should be prosecuted/resign for failing their customers.
The donors can easily decide to withdraw support. Its taxpayers money. They would not care if gazans will go hungry. After all hamas can only waste such money and use it for terror.
What happened to the jewish population (in equivalent numbers) that fled Arab countries in the wake of the creation of Israel? Do they have a right of return? Are they still protected as refugees?
The majority came from Muslim countries after being thrown out when Israel was created. They were forced to leave countries they had lived in for centuries and has to leave everything behind. Many were killed.@@2321brendan
@@2321brendan No that's not what happened....after siding with the German during WW1 and negotiating with Germany during WW2 and the Haulocaust the Allies gave Isreal the land. It belonged to Britian. Refugee is a term where they have no land of thier own
How despicable to denigrate a person who has an admirable record of academic achievement for speaking in a certain manner rather than focusing on the legitimacy and value of what they are saying. So typical of a mean minded and petty mentality typical of a culture that seeks to destroy what it cannot overcome. Have some dignity.
Don't have to cry. Other countries can fund UNRWA for example South Africa or even corporate organization like Al Jazeera. After all it's only amounts to peanuts.
It is NOT their money, its the PEOPLES money! And people should have a say in it! US sends billions of tax payers money to the z-nists dont tell me every single us tax payer agrees on this! Im quite sure the majority of us citizens are against it, specially now that a lot of them know what the money is being used for!!!
YES, IT IS THEIR MONEY, HOWEVER THEY CREATED THE SITUATION FOR WHICH THEY ARE LIABLE.!!!! MOREOVER,. PALESTINE WAS AND IS PALESTINIAN LAND THEREFORE NEITHER UK NOR IT''S CAHOOTS HAD ANY RIGHT WHATSOEVER TO GIFT IT TO THE ZIONISTS WHO WITH GENOCIDAL ACTS ETHNICALLY CLEANSED THE IDIGENOUS PALESTININAN PPL FROM THEIR LAND AND TURNED THEM INTO REFUGEES.
Here’s my never ending question to which am aware of the likely reason but one should ask LOUDLY why 👈🏽are Palestinians refugees on or from THEIR homeland? Unbelievable and restoring the life saving aid taken away without evidence of accusations needs to be restored immediately ‼️ CEASEFIRE as a humanitarian effort must happen ASAP Ty
None of this could / would have happened if Hamas did not launch their horriffic massacre on 7 October, taking 250 innocent hostages (the majority of which have not been released as yet) ... A sobering thought ... Furthermore, all this can be stopped in an instant by Hamas releasing the remaining hostages & surrendering ... Another sobering thought ... So, who's to blame for starting this ... & who's to blame for prolonging this???
During the last cease fire, Hamas released over 100 hostages. Netanyahu is opposed to negotiations. Releasing the hostages isn’t his primary objective.
It took 40 Years for the USA to sign on to the 1948 UN Genocide Convention... and it was the atrocities committed by the U.S. on the N. American Tribal Nations which fronted the delay. Ironically, in 1987, it was a Congressman from Delaware who finally signed on for the U.S... none other than "acting" President Joseph Robinette Biden. "I mean, there might be a public outcry for awhile... but then, you know what happens? People forget. They don't remember, they don't care. They just don't care. It's just gonna' be another everyday, common tragedy." "Yeah, it's -- it's not common." "Don't do somethin' you're gonna' regret for the rest of your life... You're gonna' regret..." "I ain't got nothin' but regret, Bill..." "You have a family... Children. Don't make it more of a tragedy..." - Bill Hale and Ernest Burkhart talking in jail... Killers of the Flower Moon If you tell a Lie often enough, and loud enough... it becomes Israel.
😂boy dont wrongfully use Frederick Nietzsche Have you actually read anything or do you just steal quotes btw germany stands with the jews. "Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.” This applies to people like you and the rest of the perfectly programmed 😂 Don't pretend to be an intellectual😂
AIPAC and other financial lobbies bribes senior officials to support Israël, in return billions of American Tax payers working like slaves for their Masters in Israël
Yes, the Palestinians are in state of war. Even Abbas not really saying anything is being attack because he being perceived has not joining in on the attacks with Israel.
There are many groups of people around the world dealing with starvation and War. The rohingya the uyghur, the Sudanese etc.... what makes the Palestinians so deserving of my attention? If you say it's because they're Muslim...then you've ready lost me. The history between my people, Islam, Christianity and Judaism is not a go one. Why should I interfere with their fate? They chose it....together.
One could suggest that had Israel not held Gaza under an Iron fisted Blockade, and allowed them a Seaport, Airport, and the possibility of foreign investments and tourism then Palestinians in Gaza might have been able to support themselves through a home grown Economy instead of having to rely on UNRA for their continued existence. Thats a concept that might have been worth exploring, instead of Israel's relentless brutal Occupation.
@@svr5423 You are misrepresenting a lie for the truth of the situation. Benjamin Netanyahu openly boasts of how he's used every dirty trick in the book to prevent a Palestinian State from coming into existence. That includes playing the Palestinian authority off against Hamas to keep the leadership divided so he can claim there was no one he could negotiate with. Any violence that resulted was from his abuse of the Palestinians by the IDF which served his purpose of painting the Palestinians as animals or savages whenever they lashed out in vengeance. It has always been about grabbing more and more land/settlements for him and his Zionists cohorts. That my friend is the Stones cold truth.
UNRWA needs to just set up an individual global citizen donation option on its site. Depending on countries to donate to your cause will lead to political manipulation through funding, like the US political system with lobbying.
Some of the countries who have cut funding, believe UNRWA is affiliated with a terrorist organisation and will confiscate your donation - because financing terrorist groups is illegal.
@abuahmad67 Iran or China can try. It can even happen through Russian Rubles, I'm sure countries are still holding large sums, although they are worth nothing to them because they are controlled by the west. West haters might still find the Russian Ruble useful.
AIPAC and other financial lobbies bribes senior officials to support Israël, in return billions of American Tax payers working like slaves for their Masters in Israël
UNRWA only gets paid if Palestinians stay refugees, the agency's incentive is for Palestinians to NOT have a state. No wonder this has been happening for 75 years.
How many sacks of flour can be bought daily for, say, $400 million each year??? With the BILLIONS going into UNRWA's coffers annually, why should there be a famine imminent in Gaza???
The money is not only for feeding but paying staff, services, etc. What you should be asking is how comes up to almost 4 billion to Israel yearly, and now 14 billion for the War. This year alone up to 18 billion.
You want to investigate without any proof? Usually an investigation start from the proof to find the cause and facts but without proof it is impossible to investigate something. It is like saying you will investigate a crime that didn't happen 😂😂😂😂😂 or being crazy sound better. Call the police and ask them to investigate your car that wasn't stolen 😂😂😂😂😂
It seems that the Palestinians don't believe the tunnels were there in the first place or something it was all set up by Isreal.....not that i agree with thier reasoning
There are tunnels all over. Where's the proof they were Hamas. Why do we take Israel's word for it . Israel is killing children, accusing babies of being Hamas. Where is the limit?
There are tunnels under our local hospital. Doubt if any Hamas are there. Hospitals and large buildings the world over use tunnels for their network cables, servers, water pipes, sewage and electrical cables. Easy to access and not interfering with the building above. I have actually been in the tunnels under our hospital. Haven’t seen a server room in the building though.
It shows Israels hate towards UN , they help all palestinians refugees untill they can return , and there lies the problem for Israel....Israel don't want them to return !
You all think we're dumb....hahaha. that's funny. Educate yourself FIRST on the subject, then report...cherry picking the truth is not reporting. You left a lot out. Useless news...
Israel has made it perfectly clear that UNRWA will not be permitted to operate within its sphere of influence. Instead of a meaningless debate the UN should make plans to unwind UNRWA and put in an organization that Israel approve’s of.
Targeting or NOT patronizing UNRWA's criminal and barbaric practices? There is no way that Israelis would turn a blind eye to UNRWA's evil behavior like CCP, Russia, Saudi...
I want to know what Israeli politicians' used UNRWA as a slush fund to line their own pockets. Israel had to vet all the employees and funding. Where did the money go? That responsibility and accountability is 100% on Israel.
Anne Irfan is married to an ex-IOF soldier who wants the genocide to continue until the ‘israeli’ captives are released! She’s not Palestinian, but she’s been commissioned to write a book on Gaza….
Only when the generous funding is finally terminated, will the ungrateful beneficiaries realise just how gracious the gracious benefactors had been ... a hard lesson of life ...
Really!?! For your information those people were given pocket change comparing to what they were put through all their lifes and their ancestors! And i am talking prior to the attack on gaza, now there is no amount of $$$ on earth to repair the harm done! Go educate yourself before stating what you dont know! Your profile is just another one of those created to try and silent the people against all that tirany!.
Really!?! For your information those people were given pocket change comparing to what they were put through all their lifes and their ancestors! And i am talking prior to the attack on gaza, now there is no amount of $$$ on earth to repair the harm done!!
Notice that the "major donors," who have forfeited their duties as donors, claim to be 'suspending' their aid to UNRWA rather than permanently ending it. It might be because they could 'punish' Gazans for a brief moment when they most needed assistance while not having to deal with the fallout of eliminating UNRWA. This strategy places UNWRA in limbo, where it falls short of functioning as it should but, at the same time, won't undergo a replacement. It gives the "major donors" a political cover to weaponize their defunding of UNRWA for a decided-upon period until said donors feel the weaponization has achieved its goals. 🤓
When UNRWA was created, many of the oil-rich Arab nations of the Persian Gulf were not as wealthy as they are now, nor have the political clout they possess today. However, that doesn't mean they cannot take up the slack when the "major donors" to UNRWA abruptly abandon their customary duties. Israel indeed has a responsibility to make sure the Palestinian territories under its authority have the essentials for living. The problem is that Israel has no regard for its international obligations or international law. It has violated countless UN resolutions. Knowing this, it makes little sense for others to wait for Israel to get an epiphany and assume its responsibilities under international law. The comparatively lackluster role of Gulf Arab governments in funding UNRWA or providing a robust alternative may have something to do with their conflicting attitudes toward Gaza. On the one hand, they realize that ordinary Palestinians could use their financial assistance. On the other hand, very liberal financial assistance to Gaza could remove what little social pressure existed on non-state actors like Hamas if they felt unobligated to do any social spending. There's no love lost between Hamas and these Arab governments, which might explain Netanyahu's comment about Arab governments "quietly" backing his military operations in Gaza. 🙂
@@lordfedjoe I've heard the "October 7 was just innocent Palestinians escaping their open air prison" excuse before. The problem is that escaping prisoners try to run away from the prison, not go on a murder spree, kidnap a bunch of people, and then return to the prison with their hostages. That's the sort of thing people at a terrorist base would do. Also, if one is occupying a space, one would not have to invade the space as one would have assets occupying the space. The semantics of the pro-Hamas narrative are quite nonsensical. For instance, if one is "occupied," your stated stance is that the hostage-taking and murder of noncombatants is justified. How on earth am I supposed to accept advocacy of open criminality as a moral stance? That's absurd. "Look what you made me do" is no kind of defense for immoral actions. It doesn't work for domestic abusers, and it doesn't work for terrorists, either.
For how many decades will this extraordinary and unique program last, accompanying and funding an exponential population growth, maintaining an otherwise perfectly capable group of people in a position of assistance and subservience?
Ask Israel why they deliberately repress the economies of Gaza and the West Bank. Ask them why Palestinians aren't allowed to develop their own power grids, water systems/purification, wifi, etc.
@@rachael_grey Don't forget that they found lots of natural gas under Gaza around 2005. Israel wants that natural gas reserves worth hundred of billions. That's a big reason why. Google it it is very sad. Palestinians are sitting on a lot of money
The solution of this is Palestinians live peacefully with Jews or they go back to Arabs where their ancestors came from. There was no “Palestinians” words before 1960, and there was no Arabic culture and language back then. The moral of the story is “do not start a war if you can’t afford losing a land”
Jews used to live in Arabic countries but the creation of Israel and the Nakba forced Jews to migrate to Israel or other countries. Abraham is from Iraq and his wife is from Egypt. So who do you want to go back where? Most Israelis love Europe and do everything to be part of Europe even if Israel is located in the Middle East. The truth is today Israelis have double nationalities so they move around. Palestinians were born in Palestine. Have you ever heard of the Mandate for Palestine by the British? How can it be a Mandate for Palestine in 1920 if as you are saying Palestinians didn't exist before 1960. How about Egypt who named the region Philistine around 3800 years ago and the Greeks too 3600 years ago? The first olive trees were planted by the Greek ancestors around 4200 years ago. I guess historians and archeologists must all be wrong and you are right 😂
@@ChristianPareATLAS Abraham is from Ur (Iraq) and married to his half btother Haran's daughter so Sarah must be from Iraq too. Hagar, his slave, is from Egypt, In the past the first wife descendent will succeed or in herit everything. Jews always live in the land despite their population were not big compare with the whole Arabs, and Jews used to live in Mecca and Medina but they were expelled. As a Christian, I assume, it is pathetic that you dont know that there were Kingdom of Judah and Israel about 3000 years ago and you also can not differentiate between Palestine and Philistine? Philistine is a big guys and they were from Crete, an island in Greece, and they already vanished, they dont speak Arabic or have Arabic culture like people who called themselves Palestina now. Palestina is a name created by an emperor of Roman (Adrian) to mock the Jews as they rose against the Roman ruler at that time, then he named it Syrian -Palestina, and later on Palestina term used by Arabs, who had bigger population, to make their claim legal as if they are the native of the land, but the real one is they want to wipe out Israel from the map as Israel did not believe in their profit and the Quran also teaches them to kill Jews in order to go to heaven and pleased their profit. So please educate yourself especially if you are a Christian, read the bible and trust it. The current region of Israel is just a small portion of the promised land, the region of Israel eventually gonna reach until Euphrat river in the north, Nile river in Jordan, and I am not surprised about this war because Israel is gonna win and capture bigger land as God promised.
No need to discuss about the firing of employees and defunding of UNRWA. It's just common sense. When you TRUST someone to be your employee, it means that Trust is the only thing you had for that employee in return for the expectation. If that TRUST was Broken and Lost, that employee is now WORTHLESS to the employer. I don't know what's wrong with al jazeera, "trying to twist" the facts in favor of hamas. Those employees of UNRWA were working and members of hamas. As a donor, they have the right to defund UNRWA because TRUST was broken. Hamas had benefitted so much with these funds when they diverted it from humanitarian programs to hamas infrastructure programs.
ICJ followed the usual legal path - they took the first step, finding plausible evidence that Israel is committing genocide - they will follow further legal steps ....
Charity is a choice not an obligation. No other refugees in the world have their own agency. No other refugees pass refugee status to their children. Palestinians are not special, this is unnecessary. I hope my country never gives unrwa another cent. The people of yemen are actually starving lets help those children
Israel has wanted UNRWA gone for years , because UNRWA insists on the right of return for Palestinian refugees ethnic cleansed by Israel in the original Nakba in 1948 .
