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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Israel passes legislation that restricts U.N. agency that is lifeline for Gaza
By MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY JERUSALEM©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
45 Comments
Tamarama
Time to send in the blue helmets from all over the world and stop this nonsense.
Israel are not the right people to govern and determine the fate and plight of the Palestinians. They have become what persecuted them in the 1940s......
NB
The solution for the Middle East crisis is coexistence between the Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli Jews. It should be an equitable coexistence wherein both nations can feel secure, fulfill their sentiments towards the land as much as possible, and enjoy enough space for agriculture, housing and economy.
CharlieCroker
I logged in just endorse what you said. This has gone way to far now, placating/letting Israel dictate the proceedings is unjust
sakurasuki
Too bad what happened so far is apartheid system where Palestinian live under Israel system.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/19/world-court-finds-israel-responsible-apartheid
It's proven in the court.
dbsaiya
Israel says blah, blah blah, Israel alleges, blah, blah, blah.... And how many IDF members have committed war crimes that the Israeli government does not know about,? And the genocide that Natanyahu and his Likud party are perpetrating? Stop supplying them with weapons and ammunition and stop funding this madness. If they think that they can unilaterally bar UNRWA from doing their work, then boot Israel from the UN.
NB
Any intent to obliterate on of the two nations is madness.
sakurasuki
They use banned white phosphorus on UN troops few weeks ago, that's what happen if one country have immunity from international law.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/un-says-it-needs-more-time-to-investigate-israels-use-of-white-phosphorus-in-gaza/3018411
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-suspected-using-white-phosphorus-un-peacekeepers-lebanon
NB
Kidnapping and keeping civilian hostages, including children and women, is a war crime.
RichardPearce
Is there a point where the supporters of the scofflaw regime will say 'too far'.
Even the Short Austrian didn't ban the Red Cross, but Netanyahu has essentially not just banned the equivalent of it in this context, he has declared it to be a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.
And as one survivor of the Holocaust put it, the worst people weren't those carrying out the genocide, they were those 'watching from the side' pretending that they didn't see the genocide happening right in front of them.
Those carrying it out were either in the grips of racist hate, or giving in time the temptation to be inhumane and murderous.
But those witnessing it, and pretending to see nothing wrong, well, that were in their right minds, so the 'sickness' of believing one was doing something right and good while doing something that was inherently wrong and bad wasn't a factor.
The survivor believed that they were instead fully aware they were doing something wrong and bad, and doing it anyway.
And the words in every language I know of for someone aware they were doing something wrong and bad tend to have a religious root. In English, the word is evil.
Aly Rustom
Exactly!
Hear! Hear!
Fighto!
NB -
So, the Christians there - the first in the world - have no say?
NB
Many Christians around the world support the coexistence of the two nations. By the way, the Palestinian Arabs include Muslims and Christians.
NB
Moreover, apart of Christians, there are Buddhists and Shintoists who support coexistence in the Middle East, and renounce genocide.
Fighto!
You can go first.
The great majority of the world will not send their men and women into a dangerous war zone. I can't blame them, either. Israel/Palestine will be dangerous and violent for as long as humans exist.
Oklahoma_Osaka
Every week there is an almost comical escalation of evil from Israel, to which the US continues to express its "deep concern".
Will the 43,000+ Palestinian death toll start taking into account those who have or soon will be dying of hunger? Or those who are dying because hospitals and medicine is being destroyed?
NB
Save the Palestinians and the Israelis from cruel demise - replace Hamas with a sane leadership who seeks peace, rehabilitation, development and prosperity.
Capuchin
I'm not sure why Israel is even allowed to be a member of the United Nations. They have such open disdain for the UN and all forms of international law.
At the beginning of October Netanyahu stood in the halls of the UN and called it a "swamp of antisemitic bile". Israel has been attacking its peace keeping forces in Lebanon, its killed hundreds of UN aid workers in Gaza and destroyed UN schools and hospitals, it rejects each and every resolution brought against it calling for the end of its illegal occupation of East Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan heights and its ongoing illegal annexation of Palestinian land.
Israel deserves no place in international rules bases order.
NB
The UN agencies should comply with the resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council.
Fighto!
Even rogue states such as fascist Russia, Communist China, North Korea and more, are members of the UN.
Attilathehungry
UNRWA is neck deep in Hamas. There are myriad reports of supposed UNRWA staff actually being members of Hamas, and Hezbollah for that matter. UNRWA let their schools and offices be used by terrorists to store weapons, and be used as launch pads for terrorist attacks. They use hideous Islamic propaganda to brainwash innocent children into becoming the next generation of killers. The sooner the organization is disbanded, the better.
WoodyLee
"" severing ties with it and deeming it a terror organization.""
If the UN is a terror Org. what does that make Israel???
WoodyLee
Bibi must be loosing his mind and here is why,
Can't get to the hostages or even negotiate their release.
Can't defeat Hamas.
Can't prevent attacks by Hamas or even Hezballah.
Can't end this war even if he wanted to.
Can't keep his neck out of Jail.
Can't Hold on to his job without Hamas survival.
He is screwed.
WoodyLee
""Kidnapping and keeping civilian hostages, including children and women, is a war crime.""
Israel has more children in it's prisons that the Nazi's did during WW2and as yong as 12 years old.
""We are seriously concerned over the continued detention of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities. At the end of March, 194 Palestinian children were detained by the Israeli authorities in prisons and detention centers, mainly in Israel, according to data released by the Israeli Prison Service.""
https://www.unicef.org/mena/press-releases/covid-19-crisis-un-release-children-detention-Palestinian
NB
This report says as follows: "Of the total, the vast majority of these children have not been convicted of any offence but are being held in pre-trial detention".
Are the kidnapped Israeli babies going to be trialed? For what? Why the Red Cross does not visit them?
Fos
U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller, speaking to reporters in Washington, said the administration was “deeply concerned” by the legislation.
Sheer hypocrisy. The US administration keeps sending billions of dollars of military equipment to Israel every single day. Only this year over 18 billions have been approved by the US Congress, and that explains why US stock markets are on all time high despite the geopolitical uncertainty.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68737412
This war could end the day Washington stops providing lethal weapons and bring his staunch ally, Benjamin Netanyahu, to some sort of dialogue. It is a fact that economic interests in Wall Street are higher in Wall Street than any common sense and morals.
NB
The Israeli hostages kept in Hamas's dark tunnels, of all ages and of both genders, are being starved, deprived of medications, tortured, sexually abused and murdered.
NB
This war could end the day Hamas surrenders, and is replaced by a sane Palestinian leadership who does not strive to commit genocide to the other nation, as well as by forces from the moderate Arab League nations.
Fos
Over 43.000 people killed by Israel in Gaza, amongst which innocent children and women.
As we speak Israel is using starvation as a weapon in its genocide against the Palestinians and you are bringing up the hostage, making assumptions the conflict between the two sides has started the 7th of October 2023.
What part of this equation don't you understand?
R B Quinn
A rouge nation doing what it does best!
kurisupisu
The Israelis want Gaza as their own and this is one way of furthering that agenda.
NB
The Israeli nation extended its hand three times to the Palestinian nation, in a bid to settle the conflict and to establish peace based on two states coexisting side by side, with the state of Israel being a partnership of Jews and Arabs. The Palestinians, inspired by their extremist leadership, responded three times with a refusal, and with an attempt to wipe out the Jews from the land.
The first such cycle: The Palestinian rejection of the UN General Assembly resolution from 1947 to establish two states, A Jewish-Arabic state and an Arabic state, and the launching of the disastrous 1948 war.
The second cycle: The two nations embarked on the Oslo path in the 1990s. But then, in the year 2000, Arafat changed his mind, made a U-turn and launched a campaign of terror, wherein buses exploded in the streets, cafes and restaurants were exploded, and a massacre was committed in a hotel where elderly people gathered for the holiday.
The third cycle: Israel applied for Saudi mediation in the 2020s. Hamas decided to thwart the mediation effort made by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Hamas launched a large-scale massacre and a war on October 7 2023. Lebanon joined the next day. All of this was done with the support and under the control of the Mullahs regime of Iran.
Fighto!
In what way is Israel red? Communist leanings perhaps?
NB
False. The Gaza strip should be a part of the pacifist state of Palestine that should be established next to Israel.
Attilathehungry
The Israelis HAD Gaza until 2005. Then voluntarily left. Even dug up cemeteries to remove Jewish bodies, as even having the bodies would be insulting to the Palestinians. Since then, the place has deteriorated into the current state, thanks to Hamas and their brutal combination of terror and theft.
Fos
Hundreds of UN resolutions have asked Israel through the last decades to bring to an end without delay its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which constitutes a wrongful act. Plain and simple: way before the occupation of Gaza, the Intifada movements, the continuous violence on Palestinians residents by illegal settlers in the West Bank, and the 7th October terrorist attack.
If you don't get these points there is no rational discourse
NB
Hamas does not strive to get any occupied territory back - It strives to slaughter all the 8,000.000 Jews on the land. Occupied territories should be returned in return for peace, in the framework of a comprehensive solution.
Fos
Hamas was formed in late 1987 at the beginning of the first Palestinian intifada (uprising) do not repeat things that do not make sense, and Benjamin Netanyahu was active to work with them to damage Palestinian authority in West Bank.
Have you heard of Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights, since 1967? Or shall we go back in time?
Rational talk, read and study history.
Chabbawanga
The only reason UNRWA exists is because Israel refused to let the displaced Palestinians be administered by the same agency that dealt with Jewish refugees, believing it would allow Palestinians to undermine Israels narrative.
Chabbawanga
Totally ignoring the impact of a decades long blockade, but i wouldn't expect anything less from you.
Chabbawanga
The war has been going on for decades, why would it end if one of many resistance organisations that have sprung up over the years suddenly surrenders. Fundamentally what has changed? Nothing.
Chabbawanga
Whilst simultaneously expanding settlements and annexing Palestinian territory. there has never been a genuine offer of Peace from Israel ever. "Lets make peace, but you have to let us keep stealing your land." "Errr, no thanks" "Terrorists! look they dont want peace! they want to kill every jew!"
NB
The ancestors of Hamas are those who launched the disastrous 1948 war.
AviBajaj
All UN Agencies R Kaput N Strange Thing Here Is Hamas Started It Houthis Hezbollah Joined It Preached By Khomeini N When Israel Retalated In Self Defense The TerroReligious Factions R Using Kaput UN Agencies N Social Media N GazaHood To Make Israel Bad Wake Up World N Women If U Don't Want To Wear Burkha Stand With Israel In War People Die N Who Started It Don't Forgot It
Chabbawanga
The ancestors of Israelis and the IDF are the Stern Gang (or Lehi). who carried out brutal massacres of Palestinians and terrorist attacks against British officials and security forces in the 1940s. The Stern Gang was responsible for the Deir Yassin massacre of Palestinians in 1948. You know, one of the major catalysts for the 1948 war.
Zaphod
That would be UNWRA, the same organization that has been running Hamas controlled islamist indoctrination in their schools, and whose personal took part in the Oct 7 atrocities. Not a "UN agency" that is unbiased. Trump war right in defunding them, and Biden was wrong in opening the money spigot again.
UNWRA should definitely be restricted, until it cleans up its act.