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Dem lawmakers push invoice to revive funding to controversial UN company

Editorial Board Published September 19, 2024
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A bunch of Democratic lawmakers is asking for the U.S. to revive funding to a controversial United Nations company that helps much-needed humanitarian assist to Palestinian refugees however confronted accusations that a few of its workers participated within the Oct. 7 assaults on Israel.

Talking at a press convention outdoors the U.S. Capitol on Thursday afternoon, Democratic Reps. André Carson of Indiana, Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, amongst others, stated passing H.R. 9649, or the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act, was essential for serving to Gazans.

Carson, who sponsored the invoice, portrayed a dire state of affairs in Gaza, calling present circumstances “absolutely deplorable” and “inhumane.” 

“One million. That’s the number of estimated Gazans who will not have enough food this month. 700,000. That’s the number of women and girls in Gaza who do not have access to menstrual products or even running water and toilet paper. 100,000. That is the number of Palestinians who have been seriously injured without access to functioning hospitals. 41,000. That’s the number of Palestinians killed by Israel since Oct. 7th,” Carson stated. 

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Rep. André Carson, D-Ind., speaks at a press convention on Feb. 29. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu through Getty Photographs)

Jayapal stated the UNRWA has, for many years, “played an integral role in supporting the welfare of Palestinian refugees to ensure that they can live with dignity.” 

“Unfortunately, UNWRA has been under constant attack by those who want to put a stop to this lifesaving work. The stoppage of funding was an unnecessary and dangerous interruption to continue to provide the humanitarian assistant that is so necessary,” she stated. 

The United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees within the Close to East, or UNRWA, has been one of many central businesses distributing assist to Palestinians in Gaza over the course of Israel’s ongoing struggle with Hamas. It has round 30,000 workers. 

In January, U.N. Secretary Common António Guterres tasked the U.N.’s investigative arm, the Workplace of Inner Oversight Providers, to research allegations by Israel that UNRWA employees took half within the Oct. 7 bloodbath.

The Israeli authorities lately offered the UNRWA with names of workers working as terrorists throughout the group. (Getty Photographs)

Almost 20 UNRWA employees members had been investigated, however the U.N. solely discovered sufficient proof to dismiss 9 folks.  

Nonetheless, Israel’s allegations initially led high donor international locations — most notably, the U.S. — to droop funding for UNRWA, inflicting a money crunch of $450 million. Since then, all donor international locations — aside from the U.S. — have resumed funding. 

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Schakowsky stated it was “shameful” that the U.S. determined to chop funding to UNRWA as a result of solely a “tiny number” of the company’s roughly 30,000 workers had been alleged to have been concerned in terrorist actions. 

“Every other country, among those of our allies that had decided to stop funding UNRWA, have changed their mind. So now it is the United States alone,” Schakowsky stated. “And the truth that the USA has determined that it’s not going to be there means a hazard to the people who find themselves dying, at risk of dying each single day, together with youngsters and girls and households and everybody for primary wants that they’ve. And that’s shameful. We can’t enable that.“

H.R. 9649 has 65 co-sponsors and assist from greater than 100 human rights organizations. However not everyone seems to be supportive of restoring funding. 

Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and President of Human Rights Voices, stated lawmakers’ assist of H.R. 9649 whitewashes the UNRWA’s alleged “connections to terrorism” and sends “the wrong message to Israel and America’s enemies at the wrong time.” 

Bayefsky additionally famous that “UNRWA facilities — including schools — have been used as Hamas command and control centers and weapons depots [and] UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters powered a Hamas data center directly beneath it.” 

Bayefsky slammed the UNRWA for not having taken, in her view, “serious steps towards accountability or prevention… while at the same time demanding more funding.” 

“This is not a small drop in a fictional ocean of humanitarianism,” Bayefsky stated. “UNRWA’s ties to Palestinian terrorism emanate from raising a generation of Palestinian Arabs on the hatred of Jews in its schools, upending the meaning of a ‘refugee’ to serve as a vehicle to eviscerate the Jewish state. And spreading slanderous lies guaranteed to undermine peaceful coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis to the detriment of all.”

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