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SvennoJ on 12 July 2024
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UNRWA’s Lazzarini says funding guaranteed until September

Speaking to the press after a pledging conference, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says funding for the UN Palestinian refugee agency had been guaranteed through September.

He added that the pledged amount was not yet known but would be disclosed in the coming days.

Out of the 16 countries that suspended funding after Israeli allegations against UNRWA, 14 have now resumed funding. The US and the UK did not resume funding, but Lazzarini said he was confident Britain – which elected a new government last week – would soon resume its financial support.

Israel claims charity worker killed in strike was Hamas fighter

The Israeli military has alleged, without providing any evidence, that one of the four aid workers with a UK-based charity that it killed was a member of Hamas’s internal security forces.

Hossam Mansour was among four Al-Khair Foundation staffers killed when the Israeli military bombed a warehouse in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, on Friday.

The Israeli military claimed that Mansour “took a significant and continuous part in the preservation and presence of Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip, while undermining Israel’s efforts in the region”.

Israel has previously accused the Al-Khair charity, which provides food assistance to people in Gaza, of transferring funds to Palestinian armed groups “under the guise of humanitarian activity”.

In April, Israeli forces killed seven aid workers from US-based NGO World Central Kitchen in an air strike, and has killed 195 staff with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) since October.


The Al-Khair foundation donated to UNWRA which Israel wants to designate as a terrorist organization that undermines Israel's ethnic cleansing ideology, so I guess in their eyes it's the 'truth'.

https://www.unrwa.org/tags/al-khair-foundation

Gaza’s ‘vicious cycle’ of malnutrition, disease as number of displaced people grows

The 1.9 million people displaced by Israel’s war on Gaza face “harrowing conditions”, the UN reports in its latest situation update, including at one shelter in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah where 14,000 people have access to only 25 toilets.

Worsening malnutrition is also making people vulnerable to disease in a “vicious cycle” of inadequate food, lack of clean water, little sanitation and lack of access to basic health services, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says in its latest Gaza report.

And the mass killing continues, with 182 people reported killed and 458 injured between Monday and Thursday this week alone.