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Israel-Gaza war: aid agencies ‘outraged’ by ‘reckless’ decision to cut UNRWA funding
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
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Basic human decency is
Like aiding and participating in terrorist activities? Each of these countries have intelligence operations that have concured that is the case.
Are you talking about the supposed 12 people?
The less then .1 % of the organization?
Or are you on about something else?
Because my comment said people deserve human decency and I can not figure out your point.
There are more than 12 people under investigation as I understand it. However big the problem is, it is big enough for countries to decide to defund.
12 is the main number I have heard repeated over and over.
9 captured, 1 dead, 2 missing
Do you have more information than that or are you judging the entire organization by less than a tenth of a percent?
The Wall Street Journal said Monday that intel Jerusalem shared with the US indicated that of the roughly 12,000 Gazan employees of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, some 1,200 have ties to either Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
This kind of info is not copied by various intelligence agencies. What they do is use available sources of their own for verification. They write their own report, along with a degree of confidence factor and send it uphill. It is this info that various countries used to determine to stop funding.
Ties to could be as simple as having family which does.
Not even slightly surprising given the political climate.
It would be like me judging you for your cousin being a low level proud boys member.
Always consider the wording and the source.
The information is coming from the IDF of all damn people.
Remember those 40 decapitated babies?
How about those people whose name was on that list on the wall that was actually days of the week.
I have 0 doubt that some people involved have affiliation with Hamas, just like I have no doubt that oil money is running America, and that the cartels have people in border control.
It's not association. They're claiming about 10% of their staff are actually members of Hamas:
Also, the 40 decapitated babies claim is a long-debunked myth and a claim never made by either the Israeli government or the IDF. It began and spread on social media.
That babies were found beheaded was later confirmed by pathologists:
And the days of the week?
You're asking if the hospital calendar had names or the days of the week? It's not disputed by anyone that it had days of the week. Israel formally issued a correction shortly after releasing it.
After they got called out by half the world.
The original post and the correction were four hours apart.
I don’t believe that was on accident.
Everyone knows retractions never get as much attention.
You say one thing knowing it will take off and then quietly announce your retraction after your lies take off.
Basic counterintelligence move
I'm pretty sure when you're an employee of the UN, you sign a contract saying you have no ties to terrorist organizations.
While you’re pretty sure that happens, I am 100% certain that people lie on their resumes all the time.
If my cousin was a dumbass, and I knew I wouldn’t get a job because of him, I wouldn’t bring up the fact that he was my cousin.
Would you if you were living in poverty?
Doesn't matter what their resume says. The UN organization itself has the responsibility to screen their employees as they are finding out.
There is no investigation, only Israeli bullshit till now.
There is an investigation ongoing by the UN. There obviously is concurrence by various country's intelligence bodies. That is the way it works.
Only bullshit.
Hey Israel still aidd and participates in terrorist activities and we still give them money. Let's at least not have double standards.
Are we going to play whatabout now? Germany is the largest contributor to UNRWA. They don't provide aid to Isreal and they stopped funding yesterday
100%. If Germany isn't funding Israel, maybe we shouldn't fund Israel either. Just putting that out there. Consistency is key.
Each country makes their own decisions. I'm not a congressman and have no opinion that counts regarding foreign aid. However, I'd hate to see my tax dollars go to people who have a side gig in a terrorist organization
So you think we should cancel aid to Israel. Got it.
Oh boy u really hope you're not American. XD