Quarter of a year later after stopping it with zero evidence beyond Israel going “just trust me bro” they’ve finally fixed their mistake?
How many lives could’ve been saved with that funding in the interim, Germany should be ashamed.
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Well on the bright side UNRWA did not run out of funding in the meantime.
The reason people in Gaza are starving is not because UNRWA was lacking money, but because israel is blocking food and water from getting into Gaza and mass murdering aid workers.
The Genocide has been going on for half a year now. The UNRWA block is more damaging to the future of Gaza since they are now missing a massive amount of money from their yearly budget (which Biden kindly donated to israel so they have more bombs to commit Genocide with.)
Not just Germany. As said in the article 19 donors stopped payment with nothing but "trust me bro".
Shame is what made them stop funding it in the first place, one can guess.
Too bad America cannot resume funding because the Genocrats lied about evidence and quickly passed a bill to ban UNRWA funding.
Is America now the only country left banning Unrwa?
I think at least the UK is left. But Germany is the most important one after America
That's still a big chunk, hopefully other countries step up the aid. So far it doesn't seem like the US will do anything meaningful to prevent this genocide, unfortunately.
The US is doing everything to make this Genocide possible. They aren't going crash their own party.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Germany has said it will restore cooperation and funding to Unrwa operations in the Gaza Strip after an independent review said Israel had not provided evidence to back up claims that hundreds of employees of the UN agency for Palestinians were members of terrorist organisations.
Germany’s decision follows those made earlier by several other major donors, including Australia, Canada, Sweden and Japan, to restore ties with Unwra after the Israeli government claimed in January that members of the agency had been involved in planning and carrying out the Hamas attack of 7 October that triggered the now-six-month-old war in Gaza.
The absence so far of evidence presented to underpin Israel’s allegations has raised questions about the snap decision by 19 donor governments to cut millions of dollars of funding to Unrwa, the main channel for humanitarian support for Palestinians, even as the death toll in Gaza soared, the health system collapsed and famine began to loom.
Berlin on Wednesday urged Unrwa to swiftly implement the report’s recommendations, which include strengthening its internal audit function and improving external oversight of project management.
In response to the report’s publication on Monday, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson, Oren Marmorstein, accused more than 2,135 Unrwa workers of being members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The Colonna review comes as Israel prepares to send troops into Gaza’s southernmost town of Rafah, the only corner of the strip that has not seen fierce ground fighting and where more than half of the Palestinian territory’s population of 2.3 millions have sought shelter.
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