{"id":423916,"date":"2024-01-28T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=423916"},"modified":"2024-01-28T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T05:49:08","slug":"aid-cuts-are-collective-punishment-unrwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/aid-cuts-are-collective-punishment-unrwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Aid cuts are \u2018collective punishment\u2019 \u2013 UNRWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands fleeing fighting in Khan Younis have arrived in overcrowded Rafah, where people are sleeping on the street and in tent camps\u00a0flooded\u00a0with sewage.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting a \u201clifeline\u201d to 2 million people in Gaza is \u201ccollective punishment\u201d, says Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries, including the United States, are\u00a0reviewing funding\u00a0to UNRWA after Israel alleged some of its staff were involved in Hamas\u2019s October 7 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>At least 26,257 people have been killed and 64,797 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attacks stands at 1,139.<\/p>\n<h2>Scotland pauses funding to UNRWA amid Hamas claims<\/h2>\n<div class=\"card-live__byline\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-b-l under-title\">Scotland\u2019s government will suspend new funding for the UN\u2019s relief agency for Palestinian refugees, following similar pauses by other Western countries, the BBC has reported.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card-live__content\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-content\">\n<div id=\"wysiwyg\" class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content css-1kw180w\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Scottish government spokesperson said officials were \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d by Israeli allegations that UNRWA staff participated in Hamas\u2019s October 7 attacks and had \u201cno plans to provide further support\u201d at the current time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cGiven our recent funding of UNRWA, we have separately been in direct touch with them today and have requested further updates on the investigation,\u201d the spokesperson was quoted as saying by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThese allegations are particularly concerning at a time when the international community must continue to find mechanisms to maintain, and increase the levels of life-saving aid getting into Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK government has announced a similar funding pause, along with at least eight other countries, including Australia, Germany and the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Source: Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands fleeing fighting in Khan Younis have arrived in overcrowded Rafah, where people are sleeping on the street and in tent camps\u00a0flooded\u00a0with sewage. Cutting a \u201clifeline\u201d to 2 million people in Gaza is \u201ccollective punishment\u201d, says Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. Several countries, including the United States, are\u00a0reviewing funding\u00a0to UNRWA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":423917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-423916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423918,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423916\/revisions\/423918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}