#GAZA: Biden Administration suspends funding for UNWRA & What is to be done? Josh Rogin, Washington Post
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🗓️ 31 January 2024
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#GAZA: Biden Administration suspends funding for UNWRA & What is to be done? Josh Rogin, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/30/biden-gaza-food-aid-hamas-civilians-strategy/
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:05.0 | is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:08.0 | The Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin |
| 0:11.0 | is calling on Anra and the UN to investigate troubling allegations |
| 0:15.8 | against the staff. That is one way of approaching a huge, huge controversy |
| 0:22.1 | now around the world the headlines are everywhere about |
| 0:25.7 | UNRWA to help me with this story and the controversy and the |
| 0:29.7 | contradictions I welcome Josh Roggan of the Washington Post Global |
| 0:35.1 | opinions writing about a decision by Antony-Blinket State |
| 0:38.8 | Department in these last hours to stop further funding of UNRWA. Nine other funders, nations have |
| 0:47.5 | joined in with the Secretary of State. It derives from the investigation by Israeli investigators authorities presenting evidence to the State Department. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm told that UNRWA personnel were involved in the murder raid of October 7th and that there are other UNRWA workers who may have knowledge of the original outrage. |
| 1:13.8 | However, Josh, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:16.5 | I do the best I can to summarize |
| 1:18.2 | because it's a breaking new story. |
| 1:20.4 | And you're right at the beginning of it. |
| 1:22.4 | Right now, theRWA funding, the part of your column that most engaged me with what about is that all of the recipients of UNRWA's funding and this is life saving funding |
| 1:35.5 | food and medicine sustaining schools all of the recipients do not live in Gaza what |
| 1:41.8 | are the numbers that we have Josh good evening to you |
| 1:44.8 | Well good evening John well you know a lot of people in Washington were rightly shocked by the |
| 1:51.1 | News last week that 12 UN employees for this group, UNRWA, are accused of being involved |
| 1:58.3 | in the October 7th attacks, including violence and kidnapping using UN facilities, UN trucks. |
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