'No Evidence' For Israel's Claims Against UN Palestinian Agency, UNRWA
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Remember how Israel's claims that staff at UNRWA - Gaza's main humanitarian agency - were involved in 7th October attacks drove the ICJ ruling from the headlines, and led to Western countries cancelling funds?
Those claims are falling apart. Journalists who've seen Israel's dossier say there's "no evidence" to back them up. This is a scandal of monumental proportions.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it didn't take long for this particular claim to fall apart, did it? |
| 0:04.0 | Now I realize there are so many horrors that should compete for our attention, |
| 0:08.0 | our scrutiny and indeed our fury since 7th of October, |
| 0:12.0 | but this particular claim itself has |
| 0:14.8 | potentially genocidal implications in fact directly implicating our own |
| 0:18.5 | governments I'm referring to Israel's attack on UNRWA that's the UN agency charged with the welfare of |
| 0:25.1 | Palestinian refugees and the main humanitarian agency in Gaza itself in the midst |
| 0:30.7 | of what is a grave humanitarian catastrophe. in the National Criminal Court, that is the UN Court and indeed the world's highest |
| 0:44.2 | court, placed Israel on trial for genocide, many clear that was a plausible case |
| 0:49.7 | for genocide and issued a series of legally binding orders on Israel to obey to prevent genocide. |
| 0:56.0 | On that day, suddenly there was this expose. |
| 0:59.1 | That is, according to Israel, several members of UNRWA staff were directly involved in the 7th of October attacks. |
| 1:07.0 | They then went on to claim a significant portion of UNRWA staff were Hamas or Islamic Jihad members. Now from the beginning this was all |
| 1:14.4 | completely absurd of course. The claim was that around 0.04% of |
| 1:18.9 | under as 30,000 overall workforce were implicated on the 7th of October. |
| 1:23.4 | Now if you're going to take action against agencies or services in which 0.04% of staff members |
| 1:28.8 | are implicated in various crimes, then that means taking action against every single agency or service |
| 1:35.1 | on the face of the earth. So what happened next? 14 governments led by the United States |
| 1:40.8 | and including Britain, suddenly cancelled their funding for UNRWA. |
| 1:45.4 | Not just UNRWA in Gaza because UNRWA also works in the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. total 440 million dollars worth of funding suddenly gone |
| 1:58.1 | strangling this crucial agency now politically this should an expose achieved three important |
| 2:06.0 | things. First of all it took the ICJ ruling in which Israel was placed on trial for genocide |
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