Australia will resume funding to the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, Foreign Minister Penny Wong has announced.
  • In short: Australia will resume its funding to the primary aid agency operating inside Gaza, UNRWA.
  • Funding was paused by several nations after Israel claimed several workers had links to the October 7 terror attack by Hamas.
  • What’s next? The government has committed additional support to Gaza, including assistance in delivering aid drops.
  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    there have been several reports by foreign media casting doubt on the veracity of Israel’s claims

    If there’s any truth to that, I hope UNRWA has compensated and apologised to the people they fired.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      There may have been members of the UNRWA involved but, as I pointed out 2 months ago, the accused represented about 0.006% of the UNRWA’s employees.

      It would be proportional to defunding the entire ADF over the volume of war crime accusations during Afghanistan/Iraq.

      Even prior to the news that Israel obtained their “evidence” via war crimes (torture), the instantaneous defunding of the UNRWA without any due process was criminally disproportionate — a crime against humanity in and of itself.