January 28, 2024 For the 114th consecutive day, the Palestinian resistance remains steadfast in the face of a Zionist aggression against the Gaza Strip despite the killing machine launched against Gazans. This sustained conflict has garnered attention due to a perceived tacit approval from the United States for Israeli actions, leading to a multitude of […]
A petition has been started by local environmental protection advocate Joe Chan against the government’s proposal to put a landfill off the southern coast of Coloane. The proposal was raised by the government as the existing landfills for construction waste have become full. In the description of the online petition, the advocate predicts the landfill […]
US and 8 followers cut funding to UNRWA after false Israeli claims that 12 workers collaborated with Hamas
Western countries support US and suspend aid to Gaza
“The depraved US and its cronies collaborate in Genocide of children because their elites hold huge stakes in Israeli riches”.
An UNRWA truck crosses into Egypt from Gaza, at the Rafah border crossing in the south of the enclave [File: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters]
2.4 million Palestinians are imprisoned in the tiny Gaza area in ‘Israel’, for 17 7ears under a strict blockade. Hamas is strictly Islamic but so what? They WON an election, were at first financed by Israel, and have wide support. Yes, the suicidal October 7th breakout caused deaths, on both sides. Yes, Hamas took hostages, but don’t forget Israel has OVER 5000 Palestinian captives held without trial. If Israel wants to control Palestinians it needs to give them citizenship for a start, stop massacring them, and pay for their survival aid and reconstruction. Anything less is Partition and inhuman Fascism.
A Palestinian girl carrying a child walks through debris at the site of Israeli attacks on a mosque and houses in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, January 25, 2024 [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]
The UN urges continued funding to UNRWA’s ‘lifesaving’ aid in Gaza, after Western countries cut aid to the agency.
The United States, which said 12 agency employees were under investigation, immediately suspended funding, followed by several other countries, including Britain, Germany, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland and Italy.
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), considered a lifeline for two million people in the besieged enclave, has suffered funding cuts after several of its staff were accused by Israel of involvement in the October 7 Hamas attack.
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The UN on Saturday said that it had terminated nine out of 12 staff over the allegations and vowed to hold its employees accountable, but expressed its shock at the swift funding cut by several Western countries amid a humanitarian disaster in Gaza, which has been devastated by nearly four months of Israel’s aerial and ground war.
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The military, the media and politicians are gearing up for a Third World War with warmongering talk. We had British Defence Secretary Grant Shapps telling us that Britain was “moving from a post-war to pre-war world.” Two top Estonian defence officials took advantage of a meeting with counterparts from Latvia and Lithuania and a visit […]
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