The UN Agency Accused of Links to Hamas
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Gaza is in crisis. |
| 0:16.0 | Well, I think all of Gaza has basically been turned into a giant refugee camp. |
| 0:19.0 | That's our colleague David Luno. You'll see really rivers of people walking carrying bags with clothes or food maybe a |
| 0:26.1 | blanket or two they're living in makeshift camps in tents there aren't many toilets and adding on to the misery it's been raining |
| 0:35.4 | non-stop for about 10 days. You know food starting to run short some people are using |
| 0:40.9 | animal feed to make a type of bread. |
| 0:45.0 | Resources are under huge strain, |
| 0:47.8 | and most of the aid is being delivered by one relief group. |
| 0:51.6 | The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the near east, better |
| 0:57.4 | known as UNRWA. |
| 1:01.6 | Along with emergency aid, UNRWA runs social programs and health and education services for |
| 1:06.7 | Gaza's 2.2 million people. |
| 1:10.1 | Multiple aid organizations have warned that no other agency has UNRWA's on the ground reach, infrastructure, or capacity. |
| 1:17.0 | In a place like Gaza, since UNRWA is looking after 80% of the population, |
| 1:22.8 | I'd say UNRWA is sort of the Citibank |
| 1:25.0 | of the humanitarian world. |
| 1:27.0 | They're too big to fail. |
| 1:29.3 | But this week, an Israeli intelligence report |
| 1:32.2 | made some grave accusations against the agency. |
| 1:35.0 | Some UNRUM staff are being accused of having actually taken part or been linked to the horrific attacks on October 7 against Israel that actually |
| 1:46.6 | kicked off this current war. |
| 1:49.8 | In the wake of this report, how much trouble is UNRWA in? |
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