(Yeah, you can't have an aid agency helping people they want to stuff into concentration camps. That won't work. Goddamn I hate him so fucking much.)
from Middle East Eye
US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has said that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) "has no place in new Gaza".
In a post on X, the Board said that: "We are turning a page on the complex of perpetual aid dependency and conflict. The people of Gaza deserve better."
The board retweeted a speech by US ambassador Jeff Bartos at the annual UN pledging conference on Tuesday, calling on nations to stop funding Unrwa and instead direct their financial support to the US-led body.
"You can choose to fund incitement, terrorism, and stagnation, or you can choose to fund the Board of Peace, giving Gazans a path to peace, prosperity and real, durable change," Bartos said.
Unrwa serves around 5.9 million Palestinian refugees across Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
It is the main UN agency operating in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, overseeing the majority of aid distribution in the enclave.
In Gaza, much of the strip’s 2.2 million population depends on Unrwa for food, shelter, healthcare and education. Smaller aid groups rely on their distribution networks to operate...
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