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The Israeli parliament has approved a controversial bill to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), considered a lifeline for Gaza, from operating on Israeli territory.

The legislation, which won’t take effect immediately, risks collapsing the already fragile aid distribution process at a moment when the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening, and Israel is under increased pressure to allow in aid supplies.

The vote passed 92-10 and followed a fiery debate between supporters of the law and its opponents, primarily members of Arab parliamentary parties.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

The worst is that they not only create a very dangerous precedent, but also they are barring UNRWA without providing any alternative to it.

The irony is that they are attacking the same institution thanks to which their state exists today and also the institution which was created for the world to try to avoid global conflicts like WWII.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

UNRWA is the primary mechanism by which Gaza receives aid and runs its own institutions. It is a thorn in Israel's side because they want control over all of that as well and are pissed that Gazans can direct resources where they want.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Another major factor is UNRWA's existence is legally giving Palestinians status as refugees who were ethnically cleaned by the Nakba. By dismantling UNRWA Israel is trying to remove Palestinian's legal right to return.

https://www.unrwa.org/who-we-are/frequently-asked-questions :

UNRWA is mandated by the UN General Assembly to serve ‘Palestine refugees’. This term was defined in 1952 as any person whose "normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948 and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict." Palestine refugees are persons who fulfil the above definition and descendants of fathers fulfilling the definition.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago

Yes thank you for adding this!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You just know that if the UN sends them anyway, they'll be killed by IDF ~~murderers~~ soldiers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's what was happening before, when they were "allowed".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Yep, same with journalists. They just love to kill people, especially unarmed civilians. And yet people don't believe me when I say they indoctrinate the kids to see non-Israelis as subhuman. There are so many videos.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's way past time that UN bans Israel from their institutions and puts heavy sanctions on them for their genocide and other crimes against humanity.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The UN first has to acknowledge that a genocide is taking place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

They could just do it because of the attacks Israel is doing against UN personnel and institution/agencies if they want to wait for it to legally be ruled a genocide.

Or because they keep openly being against any diplomatic efforts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago