CANADA SET TO REINSTATE $25M FUNDING FOR UNRWA
March 7, 2024THE WORLD IS TURNING! HUMANITY WILL PREVAIL!
In an unexpected move, Canada announced that it will reinstate funding to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees). Canada, alongside several Western states, paused funding after unsubstantiated allegations emerged of 12 members of UNRWA being involved in the October 7 Hamas attack.
Citing confidential sources, reports published Tuesday evening by CBC News stated that Canada is preparing to resume sending money to UNRWA.
UNRWA is the BIGGEST relief agency for Palestinians. It is on the brink of collapse due to the suspension of aid.
The world must rise. PALESTINIAN LIVES MATTER. Aid must be restored for this agency to function and save the Palestinians!!
Let’s call upon the United States, Australia and other countries to follow suit.
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Heather: A senior government official is telling CBC News the federal government will restore funding to the United Nations agency, which is key to helping Palestinians in Gaza. International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen could make that announcement as early as today. This is video of Hussen in Egypt just last month as he visited the border checkpoint where international aid moves into Gaza. The U.N. agency, called UNRWA, is seen as a lifeline to Gaza, key to urgently needed relief shipments. But a top official says the agency was in danger of running out of money after Canada, the U.S., the U.K., the EU all suspended funding over Israeli allegations that UNRWA workers took part in that Hamas attack on October 7th on Israel. UNRWA has fired those 12 workers, but Israel continues to make the allegations, claiming earlier this week that hundreds of UNRWA workers in Gaza are in fact linked to Hamas. Janice McGregor has more on the story and the whole issue of Canada’s support payments. Just to be clear, we were planning to go to that at 9 a.m. Eastern, that announcement from the minister, it looks like that’s been moved off that set time, Janice, but it is still coming in exactly the form that CBC News has learned, correct?
Janice McGregor: That’s right Heather and just to walk people through how this has evolved, you remember initially and I want to say somewhat controversially, Canada did follow the American lead, hitting pause on its support for UNRWA after Israel went public with allegations that around a dozen UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7th attacks by Hamas. Israel claims that UNRWA facilities and resources continue to be used, it says, to aid and abet violence against Israel. This is part of a pattern in the view of the government of Israel. UNRWA fired the 12 specific employees involved here. They have to be seen, though, in the context of the 30,000 mostly Palestinian staff that UNRWA employs. UNRWA vigorously denies that its aid work is somehow enabling terrorism against Israel. It says it trains its employees to be neutral. A government source is telling CBC News that Canada has seen an interim report based on the investigation that the UN launched following Israel’s allegations about this. Based on that report, Canada is apparently now comfortable resuming its funding. But there are questions about whether this pause that was announced was really that much of a pause. Canada’s next payment to UNRWA wasn’t due until April.
