Maybe because they didn't have enough proof, look at the scandal with the new York time. There isn't enough proof anywhere. I am not saying it didn't happen I am saying that they couldn't find enough proof to say what you want to hear.
As if the UN, Red Cross/Crescent or journalists can reliably independently exist in Gaza without Hamas affiliation. Those who collaborate should be cut off from international funding. Let Qatar, Turkey and Iran fund them.
According to the Israeli government and its troops, of the 1400 victims on October 7 there were 40 babies. Now give us the names of those 40 babies? If you can't then it's better for you to keep quiet
So sad to what new lows you fall in these comments. Starving thousands is not a legitimate political pressure tool. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
UNRWA only now noticed a "deliberate and concerted campaign" to dismantle it! Yes, of course there is! Those recordings are of an UNWRA school counselor joking and laughing about his captive, his 'sabaya' - how ISIS referred to their Yazidi sex slaves
The campaign against UNRWA has been going on for a long time, and it is not the first attempt to shut it down. Some people do not like that there is help for all the people depending on UNWRA, because they hate those people. UNRWA has been rejecting all the allegations for years, and proof os systematic wrongdoing has never been provided to them. I would wonder what other big entities in the region should be dismantled if one of their members making jokes about abusing human beings is the standard you want to apply. For the unendorsed and up to now only alleged wrongdoings about 0.14% of its employees, committed (if at all) the against the explicit policy of UNRWA, you want to starve thousands and have schooling and medical attention withdrawn from millions in several countries? You are cruel and should be ashamed, how do you claim to be better than the ones you look down on if starving kids is your morals?
And not even talking about sexual violence and torture reports made against palestinians by the IDF. Very convenient given that the german government is complicit in a genocidal war led by a colonial power.
The first victim of war is the truth, Israel has made many accusation that have been passed off as facts without providing any diligent un deniable proof. No beheaded babies, Hamas working for UNWRA that took part in October 7th, and false witnesses and fabrication of facts used by NY Times article that was later retracted. The UN is basing its opinion on Israel's provided testimonies and images which let's face it, are easy to manipulate unlike medical autopsies that they are denied access too.
@@pogo1140 their employees were caught texting back and forth about the sex slaves being transferred and "taking turns." Pretty big news story today all over the internet. Only the ignorant Omar appear to not know about it.
Instead of claiming a looming catastrophe in the hopes donors will just continue their funding, UNRWA should instead make all efforts to entirely overhaul their protocols and methods to ensure that they remain guarded and completely independent of local politics. This is a fundamental shift in how they currently operate. They are fully intertwined with local political structures, and have no control over the inclusion of extremist fundementalism in their distrubution network in the ME. This must change drastically before donors will be comfortable to give them more funding. They're a failed legacy structure with seemingly ineffective leadership that is in dire need of a total overhaul.
Israel told America that Bin Laden was in Afghanistan. He was in Pakistan. Netanyahu convinced Congress that Iraq had WMD's according to Israeli Intelligence. They did not. Do you think I believe anything Israel says?
So where is the proof ? Because anyone can say anything. Those allegations for which the funds were withdrawn haven't been proven. Why isn't the funds back and even if they were, let's say, those people would have been 0.04% of all their employees not even 0.1% it's ridiculous, when are we starting to hold Israel accountable like that
Where is the evidence his organisation was involved? Israel haven't produced any. Only unsourced allegations. And Israel are given a full list of all UNRWA staff every year and have the opportunity to challenge any names that their intelligence believes are compromised. The Israeli government were given that list last year and didn't question a single name. If the Mossad couldn't find evidence that a single one of the UNRWA were involved in Hamas last year how were UNRWA supposed to know. They don't have their own world-class intelligence agency, Israel does
Does every head of every organization with tens of thousands of employees have to know what every single employee does at all times? Or is it just UNRWA that is held to such a standard?
100 years ago you could have said "we didn't know" when jews were butchered, mutilated and raped (not necessarily in that order). These days you have to want not to know. Denying the atrocities makes you worse than the animals who did them.
Another sock puppet account huh, user-xyz huh. People are not ignoring the suffering in Gaza due to war, but you are ignoring the fact that western tax payer money is going towards supporting a terrorist organization as well.
Sure, if you make false dichotomies like this, you can justify ANY atrocoties against ANY civilians - Do you really want to go there? Just a gentle reminder: The reciprocal killings didn't start with October 7...
@@dayegilharno4988 "reciprocal"? It began before 1948, and was formally stated by Arab leadership over 100 years ago: "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress, available online.
@@gabrielderman974 You are wrong, sir. UNRWA may need reform, but starving innocent civilians is not a legitimate political pressure tactic. It is not the UN people who belong into jail...
Why should we pay with our taxes for those people? How arrogant of them. There are 50 Muslim countries, why do they not finance them? I hope we never ever restart to send our money to Gaza, never ever again.
The people who need to be imprisoned are leading the governments of both the warring party. Asking for a life sentence for the UN secretary general because he is doing his job, respects due process and asks to respect the laws of war and enable humanitarian aid shows a very abnormal moral standing. You should reflect on your bias.
It was an immediate and direct attack against the International Court of Justice order and the Western countries that participated in this are likewise showing total contempt for that court.
@@ryuuguu01Because simply the West is fed up with financing them. Make a referendum here and ask if the population is willing to give their tax payers money to them. What do you think would be the outcome???
@@denkendannhandelnand let 1.5 milion people die, am I right? There is a reason for the UN to exist, albeit everythins they do is not perfect. There is indeed a campaign of defamation against the UN by the far-right, based in conspiracy theories, mainly. Israel has been targeting the UNWRA for years with defamations campaigns by shady organisms such as the UN Watch, made precisely to stop UNRWA operations in Gaza.
@@denkendannhandeln then people should asks their governments why are they making chaos around the world. Stop doing harm to other countries civilian. If this happens, nobody needs anybody's countries' tax payer money.
Have any of these enormous leadership positions (in number and size) reported on these issues? The UN Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance (DMSPC), Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources and Controller, Assistant Secretary-General for Programme Planning, Finance and Budget, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Ad Interim Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Deputy Commissioner-General (Programmes and Partnerships), Deputy Commissioner-General (Operational Support). Has any of those huge (number and size) job titles leadership did not report on these issues?
We sould not "trust" the media. Their job is to prove what they say, or to establish its degree of reality. We have to evaluate what they say and learn to live with doubt.
What goal are you pursuing by mixing two unrelated topics? Do you hope that the first (sexual assault) will rub off on the other (UNRWA) and thus immediately present UNRWA in an unfavorable light? Is this just laziness or a deliberate attempt to manipulate public opinion?
No, but if the employees of UNRWA are the rapists, wouldn’t you say there is a connection? And if UNRWA was responsible for the education of the terrorists, filling their heads with hate, would you not say there is a connection?
it is deliberate because just recently the NYT story on 7th october systematic rape has been debunked and the author of the story has been found to be an IDF member infiltrated in NYT. Watch the al jazeera investigative program of couple days ago.
The first part was not about sexual assault, it was about the UN finally acknowledging, five months later, that there was rape, gang rape, and sexual torture committed on October 7. You skipped over that detail. Was that just laziness or your deliberate attempt to manipulate public opinion?
@@kateb7155Since when does believing you have reasonable grounds constitute full recognition ? And why put this in a video entitled "UNRWA head alleges Israeli government tries to undermine the agency for political ends" ?
why mix 2 unrelated topics. You are clearly trying tp influence peoples opinion about the second topic using the first topic. Manipulation at its finest
@@berkekadircelik6282 Taqiyya, bibi, you'd never accept any evidence from Israel and still believe it was Israeli missiles that hit al-Shifa. Good luck with that policy, it's failed in the region for over 100 years. "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921."
@@ryuuguu01Because they were responsible for the education of the terrorists, filling their heads with a cult of martyrdom, antisemitism and glorifying violence as a mean of solving political problems.
There are corrupt individuals in virtually every institution... It would be wrong to collectively punish those institutions for the crimes of a few ...
The UNRWA allowed Hamas to have their tunnels under their building providing them power. Claiming ignorance is not credible. So, they were complicit in Hamas' 10/7 terrorist attack and barbarities. At a minimum, the agency's head should resign and they must move their headquarters away from Hamas.
There is no prove of any decision of UNRWA on this point. It is like claiming a police department had decided to allow dealing in narcotics because one officer looked the other way because he was bribed. Your standards are insane.
Besides belief. Was evidene presented? This is not to say that sexual violence was not inflicted but evidence must be produced and preferably not one doctored by the mossad or the office of the pm
If 8 people out of 30,000 are accused of commiting a crime, should the entire charitable organization be shut down? If so, then every church in the US should have been shut down years ago. lol
The critic of UNWRA is not new. Since several years, longb before oct 7 there has been allegations about antidemocratic terrorglorifying teaching in schools run by UNWRA, lies in schoolbooks etc. As a UN organisation UNWRA is expected to be neutal and not a part in the conflict. The tax payers in the donating countries wants their hard earned money to go to humanitarian aid. I live in Sweden which is a major donor. There is a strong support here for the palestinian population but absolutely no acceptance for funding terrorism.
@@reonfralenrivera4977 I do. But I also blame the ones defunding UNRWA. There is enough blame for plenty of actors in the whole sordid affair, but I agree that the freshest round of atrocities was kicked of by Hamas and they all should face prison for it, and many of them for life. That is only an excuse for defunding UNRWA though. Bibi alone has probably turned a blind eye to more money going to Hamas to prop them up as an opponent to the PLO than they managed to steal off UNWRA activities. Should probably go to prison, too.
UNRWA must be closed immediately - forever. Lazzarini and the UNRWA executives must be brought to justice on charges of supporting terrorism and embezzling aid funds. Guterres must lay down his mandate due to inability.
And Netanjahu needs to face trial for moving troops from the border to the western bank. The allegations against the UN are a smokescreen and you should all be ashamed for opposing humanitarian aid and for cheerleading disregard toward the laws of war.
The campaign to destroy the terrorist supporter UNRWA will not be difficult as the United Nations has been malfunctionin a long time. The agency head is in deep, deep denial.
W H Y because you say so? Show me proof of the allegations, prosecute Israel for war crimes and the brutal occupation in the occupied territories and stop having double standards.
@@catalina5382 They UNRWA will cease, one way or the other.... The evidence has been shared. Do you like guys referring to female captives as their noble horses? Pun intended for sarcasm. If you don't know what I'm talking about maybe do some research, it will do you good.
So you want to starve thousands of innocents because some UNRWA employee might have done a crime against UNRWA policies and wishes? Someone they have immediately distanced themselves from on the mere allegations just in case there might have been wrongdoing? Starvation is not a legitimate political tool, and making humanitarians watch people starve is not helping them reform their organization. Be ashamed of yourself!
uhm... yes, they're facing a campaign... a very overt one, Israel (among others) has clearly criticised them, and called for their disbandment and let's not kid ourselves, they deserve it... they obviously either have no clue what their members (sure, some of, makes no difference) are doing, or are wilfully ignoring it...
Israel has made accusations but shown no evidence to anyone. The Us said they have been shown no evidence and could not find any themselves. Canada & the UK have been shown no evidence.
No they are not ignoring it, there is an investigation, which is boycotted by the accusers. Do you really think disbanding any organization in the region if less than 0.2% of its members might be implicated in crimes would further your cause? I very much suspect not. Your double standards are showing.
Well done. Like to watch a somewhat unbiased reporting compared to the antisemitic BBC. AlJazzera is interesting but there you know you get biased reporting but it is interesting to see different perspectives.
wtf i thought BBC is one of the mainstream media heavily biased towards Israel. They literally have the same reporting like sky news, CNN, and talk TV for the past 5 months. since when they become antisemitic?
I do not agree with you. I think the BBC together with Sky Australia ( pro Israel) are clearly the most biased channels. Al jazzera is forgiven since they are almost part of the conflict 😀
Help me, I just don't get why a handful of employees (out of many thousands) acting on their own (not at their employers' direction) is cause for cutting off funding, even if the case were stronger than it is. Not in these circumstances; deal with the issue later. In the name of Yahweh Jesus Allah Lord Shiva Buddha and the Flying Spaghetti Monster get your priorities straight.
The allegations are not the point. UNRWA is on the ground, in the midst of the situation in Gaza. They're seeing and reporting on the actions of Israel in Gaza, and Israel really doesn't want that visibility.
Trump cut funding off because of ongoing investigation into UNRWA activities in Gaza, like schools and school programs that teach hate and killing. Biden put the funding back, and we see what incentives like that produce. Hamas threw its political opposition off rooftops in Gaza City in 2007, no question UNRWA, schools and hospitals could not function without permission from Hamas.
The same people saying some independent workers are to be ignored love to point out the cases where US soldiers also went against army policy in the many conflicts there. So what's the position you hold, should the bosses be responsible or not? You can't change the principle based of who infringed it.
Now that UNRWA is being held to account, why shoulf Israel be blamed instead of UNRWA accepting its failures, cleaning up their act and upholding UN principles?
Because you supposed to be a "democracy" and a signataire of international conventions that regulate the legality of all member states states behaviors in multiple angles, including war? Because if not you are no different than h mas? Also, Israel approved every single person until now, as they required and received a list of all the members periodically. So it seems that if their great inteligent service "didn't know" they were "ter ro ri sts", it is reasonable to assume UNWRA also didn'k know. It is like saying, "let's abolish the *whole institution of the Police*, because a handful of them had relations with the mafia and were corrupts." It is nonsense
No all schools were segregated, my parents Junior High in Los Angeles was not segregated, I have the class pictures to prove it, and that was in the 1930s California. There were some counties and school systems that did segregate, but not all.
Israel approved every single person until now, as they required and received a list of all the members periodically. So it seems that if the great inteligent service of Israel "didn't know" they were "terrorists", it is reasonable to assume UNWRA also didn'k know. It is like saying, let's abolish the whole institution of the Police, because a handful of them had relations with the mafia and were corrupts. It is nonsense
Your standards are insane. And no matter if UNRWA is at fault, defunding them starves innocents, and I have to assume that is the goal of this smear campaign.
@@hwi6913 I do not know where you live, I myself live in a democracy- this means we bow to the rule of the people. So we act on the opinions of the majority, weather you like that or not is of no importance.
@@denkendannhandeln What you describe does not sound like a country with the rule of law. In my country, things like the dignity of human life are protected by the constitution, no matter how big a majority of the people can be fabricated or misled.
Obviously? You woke up and decided that or is there actual proof Israel barely had *allegations* for 0.04% of UNRWA, hold Israel to the same high standards of accountability and then we LL talk. Until then stop advocating for mass starvation and get a life
@@catalina5382 "high standard", what nonsense. Trump administration defunded UNRWA back in 2018. Their activities have been known for decades, just only now hitting the front page. Only Hamas leadership advocates for starvation in Gaza, it's their PR tactic.
@@catalina5382some soldiers allegedly ran a handcuffed palestinian with a tank two days ago. It's a tiny fraction of the army, so should we ignore their responsibility in it? I can accept either side of the argument, what I can't accept is people switching principles based on who infringed them.
I firmly believe that the dissolve of the UNRWA would have little impact on the Palestinians' daily living who will largely remain same same decades after from today.
@nuqwestr other than those ever-increasing financial, material and educational and medical aids etc., any significantly better off in terms of growth prospect and economic and social development than 20 years ago ?
@@nuqwestr One word? Blockade. And do not forget that UNRWA is active in many more countries, and people are suffering there as well because of this smear campaign.
Hamas leader is rich enough to live in Qatar, let him fund UNRWA. If he cares so much about the plight of his people, the Palestinian people, let him donate some of his money to get them some basic living supplies. Even 10% of his wealth will buy a lot of food for a lot of Gazans.
The UN report said "Clear information" it didn't say "Clear evidence" that hostages were being raped and gang raped. From what I know know there was no reports of any rapes in any health centers and there was even a New York Times report in which the person an Israeli woman concluded there were mass and sytematic rapes of women and she couldn't find any evidence of it and New York Times still went with the story. So maybe the UN has gotten info the Private investigators don't have but saying "clear information" sounds like accounts given by people and not actual evidence. The UN also recently said that Israel was using rape and sexual violence against detainees. Many of them that have no charges against them are just held without any evidence of wrongdoing and there is no outrage here. Listen I'm just saying mass attrocities happened on Oct 7th if raped occured that is usually something that occurs in war and not exceptional. Why does Israel so baldy want the world to know that rape also occured? To move the narrative from all the attrocities they are committing now. Over 30k people dead and 75k people injured and 3/4 of people having no where to live because their homes were destroyed, starving people on a mass scale and then shooting at them. Israel has casued the whole destruction of Gaza while only 1200 Israelis died which one is more destructive?
@@alistairw.6394 So you are saying their are images of women being raped during the Oct 7th attacks? and Audio recordings of it online? Well that's interesting. I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm just saying that people who investigated in the past even though they conlcuded that there was sytematic rape on Oct 7th, never had actual physical evidence to back it up and like the New York times reporter who was found to like post saying to destroy Gaza and couldnt't find any reports of rape in health centers but still concluded that there was systematic rape the "evidence" was always something lacking. I don't know what the UN has found in terms of "hard evidence" or if they found witness who they consider credible and who stories are backed up "circumstantial evidence" and they believe the stories are credible. Cause I just haven't heard any stories of direct evidence of rape occuring so far.
Proof? A case? A coherent argument? Do you really only have slander? There surely are war criminals involved in this conflict, on both sides and very high up, but they do not work at the UN....
How on earth can you accuse an organisation set up as a whitewash effort, by the organisation that rubberstamped the original founding of this colonialist project, as being an organisation of the colonised? F-ing mind-blowing.
Maybe Israel would like to present Hamas with a list of all the Palestinians they have in custody, their date of incarceration and what they're charged with.
The difference being Israel didn't went to the west bank or Gaza kidnapping whoever they could put their hands on. If they did they would have 100x more people. Yet to see scenes of their prisioners being dragged in the middle of town where the "civilians" beat and spit on them either.
This is ridiculous.. whatever is happening in Gaza right now is infront of our eyes..but the oct 7 is unclear..no clear proof but still you ppl say its "likely"..😂😂
@@EG-gq1fn Let's use the Past as a way to have some perspective and present an argument. Why the slaves started wars against the the whites, like Nat Turner's slave rebellion, and committed many atrocities during their revolts? Atrocities have to be condemned no matter what, even in those cases. However, it is obvious to anyone with one ounce of understanding: the revolt was a natural, almost inevitable, consequence of the resentment, hate, and resistant towards a legalized, centenary system of unimaginable brutal oppression. The root cause, and the "real problem", was not that the slaves decided to commit terrible atrocities towards innocent civilians (and then they had to "defend itself" with more violence), but the *system of oppression of millions of people, sanctioned by the law and the state.*To me, not the particularities, but in regards the essences of the problems, the parallel with Israel today is sadly absurdly close.
The organization “Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence” was founded in 1995 after the kidnapping and gang rape of a 12 year old girl by 3 US Servicemen. The organization has chronicled US Military crimes, atrocities, and accidents in Okinawa going back to the Sept 1949 rape/murder of a 9 month old baby girl by a US Serviceman.
No proof of any organizational collaboration. You do not close done a Department with 14000 cops is less than 20 of them are alleged to be on the take...
They could not actually say "they did it". Thanks United Nations. One failure on top of another.
Maybe because they didn't have enough proof, look at the scandal with the new York time. There isn't enough proof anywhere. I am not saying it didn't happen I am saying that they couldn't find enough proof to say what you want to hear.
As if the UN, Red Cross/Crescent or journalists can reliably independently exist in Gaza without Hamas affiliation. Those who collaborate should be cut off from international funding. Let Qatar, Turkey and Iran fund them.
Dealing with a reality in the field doesn't mean being affiliated.
Of course the head of UNRWA would deny any wrongdoing since UNRWA is a cash cow for all of its employees.
Exactly - it's all about keeping the gravy train rolling.
100% accurate
According to the Israeli government and its troops, of the 1400 victims on October 7 there were 40 babies. Now give us the names of those 40 babies? If you can't then it's better for you to keep quiet
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So sad to what new lows you fall in these comments. Starving thousands is not a legitimate political pressure tool. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Head of the UNRWA worried he might have to find a real job in the private sector.
UNRWA only now noticed a "deliberate and concerted campaign" to dismantle it!
Yes, of course there is!
Those recordings are of an UNWRA school counselor joking and laughing about his captive, his 'sabaya' - how ISIS referred to their Yazidi sex slaves
The campaign against UNRWA has been going on for a long time, and it is not the first attempt to shut it down. Some people do not like that there is help for all the people depending on UNWRA, because they hate those people. UNRWA has been rejecting all the allegations for years, and proof os systematic wrongdoing has never been provided to them.
I would wonder what other big entities in the region should be dismantled if one of their members making jokes about abusing human beings is the standard you want to apply.
For the unendorsed and up to now only alleged wrongdoings about 0.14% of its employees, committed (if at all) the against the explicit policy of UNRWA, you want to starve thousands and have schooling and medical attention withdrawn from millions in several countries? You are cruel and should be ashamed, how do you claim to be better than the ones you look down on if starving kids is your morals?
UNWRA bosses, now also afraid of loosing their jobs....
using UNRWA headline and starting with the news of "possible rape" nice one DW
And not even talking about sexual violence and torture reports made against palestinians by the IDF. Very convenient given that the german government is complicit in a genocidal war led by a colonial power.
“nice”?
Cheap journalistic standards centering on smearing campaigns, that's DW for ya🤦♂️
Why is “ Possible rape” in quotations? They said rape is likely… Are you an incel?
Wasn't "possible". The UN knows it's true and just pretends there's a chance it isn't. Defund UNRWA.
“Some (rape) cases could not be verified.” In reference to the Israeli women found dead with their clothes removed.
Can you please provide any news or links about it?
Some is the key word… not all, therefore it happened and that’s a war crime 🫢
The first victim of war is the truth, Israel has made many accusation that have been passed off as facts without providing any diligent un deniable proof. No beheaded babies, Hamas working for UNWRA that took part in October 7th, and false witnesses and fabrication of facts used by NY Times article that was later retracted. The UN is basing its opinion on Israel's provided testimonies and images which let's face it, are easy to manipulate unlike medical autopsies that they are denied access too.
How does that tie to UNRWA?
@@pogo1140 their employees were caught texting back and forth about the sex slaves being transferred and "taking turns."
Pretty big news story today all over the internet. Only the ignorant Omar appear to not know about it.
Instead of cleaning up, the head tries to deny the misdeeds.
Instead of claiming a looming catastrophe in the hopes donors will just continue their funding, UNRWA should instead make all efforts to entirely overhaul their protocols and methods to ensure that they remain guarded and completely independent of local politics. This is a fundamental shift in how they currently operate. They are fully intertwined with local political structures, and have no control over the inclusion of extremist fundementalism in their distrubution network in the ME. This must change drastically before donors will be comfortable to give them more funding. They're a failed legacy structure with seemingly ineffective leadership that is in dire need of a total overhaul.
An aid organization having government liason officers is bad? Oh well NOTHING FOR POOR ALL OVER THE WORLD THEN
UNRWA, as well as many
other UN agencies need
a complete overhaul and
clean-up/clear-out of
corrupt people and
practices!!!
Never happen
Was the UNRWA guy so clueless that he didn't know his organization was involved?
Israel told America that Bin Laden was in Afghanistan. He was in Pakistan.
Netanyahu convinced Congress that Iraq had WMD's according to Israeli Intelligence. They did not.
Do you think I believe anything Israel says?
So where is the proof ? Because anyone can say anything. Those allegations for which the funds were withdrawn haven't been proven.
Why isn't the funds back and even if they were, let's say, those people would have been 0.04% of all their employees not even 0.1% it's ridiculous, when are we starting to hold Israel accountable like that
Where is the evidence his organisation was involved? Israel haven't produced any. Only unsourced allegations. And Israel are given a full list of all UNRWA staff every year and have the opportunity to challenge any names that their intelligence believes are compromised. The Israeli government were given that list last year and didn't question a single name. If the Mossad couldn't find evidence that a single one of the UNRWA were involved in Hamas last year how were UNRWA supposed to know. They don't have their own world-class intelligence agency, Israel does
They used UNRWA vehicles to kidnap Israelis.
Does every head of every organization with tens of thousands of employees have to know what every single employee does at all times? Or is it just UNRWA that is held to such a standard?
100 years ago you could have said "we didn't know" when jews were butchered, mutilated and raped (not necessarily in that order). These days you have to want not to know. Denying the atrocities makes you worse than the animals who did them.
Another sock puppet account huh, user-xyz huh.
People are not ignoring the suffering in Gaza due to war, but you are ignoring the fact that western tax payer money is going towards supporting a terrorist organization as well.
It's not about denial, it's about atrocities committed in response to them.
It's a War a War that Israel did not start. 🇮🇱
Sure, if you make false dichotomies like this, you can justify ANY atrocoties against ANY civilians - Do you really want to go there? Just a gentle reminder: The reciprocal killings didn't start with October 7...
@@dayegilharno4988 "reciprocal"? It began before 1948, and was formally stated by Arab leadership over 100 years ago:
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress, available online.
How do tunnels ( concrete reinforced ) magically appear under a building/buildings and only 12 people know about it?
Qatar snd Iran can fund UNRWA. Hamas billionaires can fund it too.
Seems like a very racist remark.
@@jamesbarnes3832 Why?
It's curious how UNRWA was never mentioned by the Israelis before the war ...
No,it was
Stop showing mercy to Palestinian who supports October 7
So where is the prove,?? Please shows the world the prove and not hearsey
UNRWA has to finished and charges be brought to the directors. Lazzarini has to go to jail and go bankrupt
And the charges against Bibi and the rest of the higher ups?
Pablo you live in where ?
Sorry, I don’t have the time to educate you. I did promise to try but too many ignorant people !
@@gabrielderman974 You are wrong, sir. UNRWA may need reform, but starving innocent civilians is not a legitimate political pressure tactic. It is not the UN people who belong into jail...
Why should we pay with our taxes for those people? How arrogant of them. There are 50 Muslim countries, why do they not finance them? I hope we never ever restart to send our money to Gaza, never ever again.
Misschien moet je eens naar je eigen screenname luisteren en eerst denken voordat je post.
What's not racist about this comment pinguin
Maybe we fund it because we are the reason for this colonialist project and created UNRWA as a wash effort to alleviate a little of our guilt?
@@trozombo Cuz.....gaza isn't a race? Did you mean prejudiced?
You are justifying the actions by Hamas and Hamas supporters on October the 7th?
Mr. Lazarini you are in no position to recommend or ask to reconsider anything.. time for you to remove yourself. You have been compromised.
Lool Alleges? It seems that they are allergic to responsibility for their actions. All imprisoned for life and starting with Antonio Guterres
The people who need to be imprisoned are leading the governments of both the warring party. Asking for a life sentence for the UN secretary general because he is doing his job, respects due process and asks to respect the laws of war and enable humanitarian aid shows a very abnormal moral standing. You should reflect on your bias.
It was an immediate and direct attack against the International Court of Justice order and the Western countries that participated in this are likewise showing total contempt for that court.
UNRWA should be disbanded. For all the right reasons
what reason? because Israel made an accusation but has present evidence to no one?
@@ryuuguu01Because simply the West is fed up with financing them. Make a referendum here and ask if the population is willing to give their tax payers money to them. What do you think would be the outcome???
@@denkendannhandelnand let 1.5 milion people die, am I right? There is a reason for the UN to exist, albeit everythins they do is not perfect. There is indeed a campaign of defamation against the UN by the far-right, based in conspiracy theories, mainly. Israel has been targeting the UNWRA for years with defamations campaigns by shady organisms such as the UN Watch, made precisely to stop UNRWA operations in Gaza.
@@denkendannhandeln then people should asks their governments why are they making chaos around the world. Stop doing harm to other countries civilian. If this happens, nobody needs anybody's countries' tax payer money.
@@denkendannhandelnok let’s make a referendum about the weapon and dollar support too. It would be nice to see the result.
Why are these stories peered up on all the major news outlets?
Ok can we see the evidence with our own eyes and ears?
Have any of these enormous leadership positions (in number and size) reported on these issues? The UN Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance (DMSPC), Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources and Controller, Assistant Secretary-General for Programme Planning, Finance and Budget, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Ad Interim Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Deputy Commissioner-General (Programmes and Partnerships), Deputy Commissioner-General (Operational Support). Has any of those huge (number and size) job titles leadership did not report on these issues?
Just like Trusting the NYT News Media
We sould not "trust" the media. Their job is to prove what they say, or to establish its degree of reality. We have to evaluate what they say and learn to live with doubt.
What goal are you pursuing by mixing two unrelated topics? Do you hope that the first (sexual assault) will rub off on the other (UNRWA) and thus immediately present UNRWA in an unfavorable light? Is this just laziness or a deliberate attempt to manipulate public opinion?
No, but if the employees of UNRWA are the rapists, wouldn’t you say there is a connection? And if UNRWA was responsible for the education of the terrorists, filling their heads with hate, would you not say there is a connection?
it is deliberate because just recently the NYT story on 7th october systematic rape has been debunked and the author of the story has been found to be an IDF member infiltrated in NYT. Watch the al jazeera investigative program of couple days ago.
The first part was not about sexual assault, it was about the UN finally acknowledging, five months later, that there was rape, gang rape, and sexual torture committed on October 7. You skipped over that detail. Was that just laziness or your deliberate attempt to manipulate public opinion?
@@kateb7155Since when does believing you have reasonable grounds constitute full recognition ? And why put this in a video entitled "UNRWA head alleges Israeli government tries to undermine the agency for political ends" ?
The same way people are mixing what happens on the west bank as justification for oct 7? Obvious connections can't be made both ways now?
why mix 2 unrelated topics. You are clearly trying tp influence peoples opinion about the second topic using the first topic.
Manipulation at its finest
UNRWA is complicit, not unrelated.
@@nuqwestr Israel is yet to provide single evidence.
@@berkekadircelik6282 Taqiyya, bibi, you'd never accept any evidence from Israel and still believe it was Israeli missiles that hit al-Shifa. Good luck with that policy, it's failed in the region for over 100 years.
"Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921."
Victims galore in Gaza - even UNRWA is a victim now.
Un & UNRWA must close down asap!
Why? Because they will not unconditionally support Israel no matter what crimes Israel commits?
@@ryuuguu01Because they were responsible for the education of the terrorists, filling their heads with a cult of martyrdom, antisemitism and glorifying violence as a mean of solving political problems.
That would be the worst ! Israel momentarily Government should close down asap!
So that war crimes can go unpunished and uncondemned? This is an insane standpoint.
Germans acting like they're not part of the plot
"Plot"
Why should Germany be part of anything ? What kind of conspiratoric theory is that? Russian desinformation campaign?
There are corrupt individuals in virtually every institution... It would be wrong to collectively punish those institutions for the crimes of a few ...
The UNRWA allowed Hamas to have their tunnels under their building providing them power. Claiming ignorance is not credible. So, they were complicit in Hamas' 10/7 terrorist attack and barbarities. At a minimum, the agency's head should resign and they must move their headquarters away from Hamas.
There is no prove of any decision of UNRWA on this point. It is like claiming a police department had decided to allow dealing in narcotics because one officer looked the other way because he was bribed. Your standards are insane.
Besides belief. Was evidene presented? This is not to say that sexual violence was not inflicted but evidence must be produced and preferably not one doctored by the mossad or the office of the pm
You can easily online find videos of it happening. It’s been there since the 7th of October
you men THE unrwa that has hamas members in their mids that took part in the massacre of isaeli women and children?
If 8 people out of 30,000 are accused of commiting a crime, should the entire charitable organization be shut down?
If so, then every church in the US should have been shut down years ago. lol
The critic of UNWRA is not new. Since several years, longb before oct 7 there has been allegations about antidemocratic terrorglorifying teaching in schools run by UNWRA, lies in schoolbooks etc.
As a UN organisation UNWRA is expected to be neutal and not a part in the conflict. The tax payers in the donating countries wants their hard earned money to go to humanitarian aid. I live in Sweden which is a major donor. There is a strong support here for the palestinian population but absolutely no acceptance for funding terrorism.
Defund unrwa
Starvation is not a legitimate political tool! Be ashamed of yourself!
@@Dr.-Ing._M their part of the problem not the solution
@@reonfralenrivera4977 As are you, if you post such empty and deeply amoral slogans.
@@Dr.-Ing._M blame hamas
@@reonfralenrivera4977 I do. But I also blame the ones defunding UNRWA. There is enough blame for plenty of actors in the whole sordid affair, but I agree that the freshest round of atrocities was kicked of by Hamas and they all should face prison for it, and many of them for life. That is only an excuse for defunding UNRWA though. Bibi alone has probably turned a blind eye to more money going to Hamas to prop them up as an opponent to the PLO than they managed to steal off UNWRA activities. Should probably go to prison, too.
To actually not fund the United Nations when IDF soldiers killed many of them is shocking 😢
UN where combatants.
UNRWA must be closed immediately - forever. Lazzarini and the UNRWA executives must be brought to justice on charges of supporting terrorism and embezzling aid funds. Guterres must lay down his mandate due to inability.
And Netanjahu needs to face trial for moving troops from the border to the western bank. The allegations against the UN are a smokescreen and you should all be ashamed for opposing humanitarian aid and for cheerleading disregard toward the laws of war.
The campaign to destroy the terrorist supporter UNRWA will not be difficult as the United Nations has been malfunctionin a long time. The agency head is in deep, deep denial.
E N D UNRWA!
W H Y because you say so? Show me proof of the allegations, prosecute Israel for war crimes and the brutal occupation in the occupied territories and stop having double standards.
@@catalina5382 They UNRWA will cease, one way or the other.... The evidence has been shared. Do you like guys referring to female captives as their noble horses? Pun intended for sarcasm. If you don't know what I'm talking about maybe do some research, it will do you good.
So you want to starve thousands of innocents because some UNRWA employee might have done a crime against UNRWA policies and wishes? Someone they have immediately distanced themselves from on the mere allegations just in case there might have been wrongdoing? Starvation is not a legitimate political tool, and making humanitarians watch people starve is not helping them reform their organization. Be ashamed of yourself!
UNRWA SHOULD BE DONE. Fold it into the UNHCR.
uhm... yes, they're facing a campaign... a very overt one, Israel (among others) has clearly criticised them, and called for their disbandment
and let's not kid ourselves, they deserve it... they obviously either have no clue what their members (sure, some of, makes no difference) are doing, or are wilfully ignoring it...
Israel has made accusations but shown no evidence to anyone. The Us said they have been shown no evidence and could not find any themselves. Canada & the UK have been shown no evidence.
No they are not ignoring it, there is an investigation, which is boycotted by the accusers. Do you really think disbanding any organization in the region if less than 0.2% of its members might be implicated in crimes would further your cause? I very much suspect not. Your double standards are showing.
@@Dr.-Ing._M 😅 you’re funny
Well done. Like to watch a somewhat unbiased reporting compared to the antisemitic BBC. AlJazzera is interesting but there you know you get biased reporting but it is interesting to see different perspectives.
What do you mean biased? Is speaking truth biased and anti semitism?
wtf i thought BBC is one of the mainstream media heavily biased towards Israel. They literally have the same reporting like sky news, CNN, and talk TV for the past 5 months.
since when they become antisemitic?
@@mohammedshafi9124 al-Jazeera, solely owned by government of Qatar, and biased by their own charter.
Well done ? It's just that their bias meets yours. The BBC is more neutral.
I do not agree with you. I think the BBC together with Sky Australia ( pro Israel) are clearly the most biased channels. Al jazzera is forgiven since they are almost part of the conflict 😀
Help me, I just don't get why a handful of employees (out of many thousands) acting on their own (not at their employers' direction) is cause for cutting off funding, even if the case were stronger than it is. Not in these circumstances; deal with the issue later. In the name of Yahweh Jesus Allah Lord Shiva Buddha and the Flying Spaghetti Monster get your priorities straight.
The allegations are not the point. UNRWA is on the ground, in the midst of the situation in Gaza. They're seeing and reporting on the actions of Israel in Gaza, and Israel really doesn't want that visibility.
Trump cut funding off because of ongoing investigation into UNRWA activities in Gaza, like schools and school programs that teach hate and killing. Biden put the funding back, and we see what incentives like that produce. Hamas threw its political opposition off rooftops in Gaza City in 2007, no question UNRWA, schools and hospitals could not function without permission from Hamas.
😂😂😂 your guys brains are dough lol
The same people saying some independent workers are to be ignored love to point out the cases where US soldiers also went against army policy in the many conflicts there. So what's the position you hold, should the bosses be responsible or not? You can't change the principle based of who infringed it.
How do you know there are only handfull?
Now that UNRWA is being held to account, why shoulf Israel be blamed instead of UNRWA accepting its failures, cleaning up their act and upholding UN principles?
Show us the proof.
Because you supposed to be a "democracy" and a signataire of international conventions that regulate the legality of all member states states behaviors in multiple angles, including war? Because if not you are no different than h mas? Also, Israel approved every single person until now, as they required and received a list of all the members periodically. So it seems that if their great inteligent service "didn't know" they were "ter ro ri sts", it is reasonable to assume UNWRA also didn'k know. It is like saying, "let's abolish the *whole institution of the Police*, because a handful of them had relations with the mafia and were corrupts." It is nonsense
The schools in America in the 1950's were segregated but not homophobic. Today they are homophobic but not segregated is this progress?
No all schools were segregated, my parents Junior High in Los Angeles was not segregated, I have the class pictures to prove it, and that was in the 1930s California. There were some counties and school systems that did segregate, but not all.
Not homophobic? 🤣 Would love to see you time travel to be openly gay in the 50s while attending/working at a school and see what would happen.
unwrwa own fault for employing terrorists!
Israel approved every single person until now, as they required and received a list of all the members periodically. So it seems that if the great inteligent service of Israel "didn't know" they were "terrorists", it is reasonable to assume UNWRA also didn'k know. It is like saying, let's abolish the whole institution of the Police, because a handful of them had relations with the mafia and were corrupts. It is nonsense
Your standards are insane. And no matter if UNRWA is at fault, defunding them starves innocents, and I have to assume that is the goal of this smear campaign.
sick of news abt this
dws agenda is clear
DWnews complicit with this genocide.
UNRWA complicit with Hamas.
UNRWA Got caught helping Hammas
Just dismantle and disband this false organization. Sheer waste of effort and money. Not to mention illegal manipulation of its funds.
You're a bit late in the loop. But good thing you're covering it at least
EU just decided to give UNRWA money to keep there work running. That is a good sign ! 🕊☮
Good, this will give power to all right wing parties in Europe in the next elections to come …. What a wise move from the EU.
@@denkendannhandeln It will just help to keep aid for children und families in Gaza alive ! So it will help people in desperate need!
@@denkendannhandeln We're not going to start acting or not acting based on the opinions of right-wing fanatics, are we?
@@hwi6913 I do not know where you live, I myself live in a democracy- this means we bow to the rule of the people. So we act on the opinions of the majority, weather you like that or not is of no importance.
@@denkendannhandeln What you describe does not sound like a country with the rule of law. In my country, things like the dignity of human life are protected by the constitution, no matter how big a majority of the people can be fabricated or misled.
FUAX NEWS🦊
Defund money to UNRWA and disbanded.
Starving innocents is not a legitimate policy. Shame on you!
Horus is real, wake up..
""likely" committed .....Shame on DW what a bias reporter
UN without a clue, so why not say it happened. UNRWA leadership needs to go. Obviously they had employees participate in Oct 7. And continue to do so.
Obviously? You woke up and decided that or is there actual proof
Israel barely had *allegations* for 0.04% of UNRWA, hold Israel to the same high standards of accountability and then we LL talk. Until then stop advocating for mass starvation and get a life
@@catalina5382 "high standard", what nonsense. Trump administration defunded UNRWA back in 2018. Their activities have been known for decades, just only now hitting the front page. Only Hamas leadership advocates for starvation in Gaza, it's their PR tactic.
@@catalina5382some soldiers allegedly ran a handcuffed palestinian with a tank two days ago. It's a tiny fraction of the army, so should we ignore their responsibility in it? I can accept either side of the argument, what I can't accept is people switching principles based on who infringed them.
I firmly believe that the dissolve of the UNRWA would have little impact on the Palestinians' daily living who will largely remain same same decades after from today.
Huh?
@nuqwestr other than those ever-increasing financial, material and educational and medical aids etc., any significantly better off in terms of growth prospect and economic and social development than 20 years ago ?
@@whisperK1108 huh? Gaza has 24 km of Mediterranean Coastline, could be a paradise, lots of money, even Billionaires able to invest. Why don't they?
@@nuqwestr you have to ask the Gazans
@@nuqwestr One word? Blockade. And do not forget that UNRWA is active in many more countries, and people are suffering there as well because of this smear campaign.
Ask all the individuals to give UnRWA fundings those people who are against Israel.🤣.
Hamas leader is rich enough to live in Qatar, let him fund UNRWA. If he cares so much about the plight of his people, the Palestinian people, let him donate some of his money to get them some basic living supplies. Even 10% of his wealth will buy a lot of food for a lot of Gazans.
The UN report said "Clear information" it didn't say "Clear evidence" that hostages were being raped and gang raped. From what I know know there was no reports of any rapes in any health centers and there was even a New York Times report in which the person an Israeli woman concluded there were mass and sytematic rapes of women and she couldn't find any evidence of it and New York Times still went with the story. So maybe the UN has gotten info the Private investigators don't have but saying "clear information" sounds like accounts given by people and not actual evidence.
The UN also recently said that Israel was using rape and sexual violence against detainees. Many of them that have no charges against them are just held without any evidence of wrongdoing and there is no outrage here. Listen I'm just saying mass attrocities happened on Oct 7th if raped occured that is usually something that occurs in war and not exceptional. Why does Israel so baldy want the world to know that rape also occured? To move the narrative from all the attrocities they are committing now. Over 30k people dead and 75k people injured and 3/4 of people having no where to live because their homes were destroyed, starving people on a mass scale and then shooting at them. Israel has casued the whole destruction of Gaza while only 1200 Israelis died which one is more destructive?
@@alistairw.6394 These anti-Semites don't care about evidence - they're still denying that thing that happened in the 40s.
@@alistairw.6394 So you are saying their are images of women being raped during the Oct 7th attacks? and Audio recordings of it online? Well that's interesting. I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm just saying that people who investigated in the past even though they conlcuded that there was sytematic rape on Oct 7th, never had actual physical evidence to back it up and like the New York times reporter who was found to like post saying to destroy Gaza and couldnt't find any reports of rape in health centers but still concluded that there was systematic rape the "evidence" was always something lacking. I don't know what the UN has found in terms of "hard evidence" or if they found witness who they consider credible and who stories are backed up "circumstantial evidence" and they believe the stories are credible. Cause I just haven't heard any stories of direct evidence of rape occuring so far.
lazzarini and guterres UN war cri minals
Proof? A case? A coherent argument? Do you really only have slander? There surely are war criminals involved in this conflict, on both sides and very high up, but they do not work at the UN....
Turkey must immediately donate 100 billion dollars to UNWRA. No delay will be acceptable!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Does Turkey even have that cash still🤣
Probably not, they're happier spending other people's money .... @@Sam_Guevenne
The presenter very cleverly manipulated the news..He said UNWRA is UN palestine agency..IS it true ?Why in UNWRA has no letter P for palestine?
www.unrwa.org/
Why FSB has no R letter for Russia? Or the Z letter ? Seriously...
How on earth can you accuse an organisation set up as a whitewash effort, by the organisation that rubberstamped the original founding of this colonialist project, as being an organisation of the colonised? F-ing mind-blowing.
Good call lol @@sockhal4595
@@dwnews Please tell UNRWA that we were born yesterday. They need to continue their fish distribution for another hundred years.
Philippe Lazareni represents not only UNRWA but also Hamas. Israel must consider him culpable in October 7th attack and deal with him accordingly.
Maybe Israel would like to present Hamas with a list of all the Palestinians they have in custody, their date of incarceration and what they're charged with.
The difference being Israel didn't went to the west bank or Gaza kidnapping whoever they could put their hands on. If they did they would have 100x more people. Yet to see scenes of their prisioners being dragged in the middle of town where the "civilians" beat and spit on them either.
Hamas Agency
Another excuse not to have a ceasefire
This is ridiculous.. whatever is happening in Gaza right now is infront of our eyes..but the oct 7 is unclear..no clear proof but still you ppl say its "likely"..😂😂
Unclear???? Are you for real?? Living under a stone???
your so called freedom fighter were rayping women for resistance. 😂😂
@@jerrfeynaploza6767 Yeah they were literally parading a nu de German tourist while dancing. There is still video of that on RUclips
Unclear? Watch Hamas's own footage of Oct 7th before sharing your uncertainty online.
Israel very inhumane 😮
War is inhumane, so why did Hamas start it?
@@EG-gq1fn Let's use the Past as a way to have some perspective and present an argument. Why the slaves started wars against the the whites, like Nat Turner's slave rebellion, and committed many atrocities during their revolts? Atrocities have to be condemned no matter what, even in those cases. However, it is obvious to anyone with one ounce of understanding: the revolt was a natural, almost inevitable, consequence of the resentment, hate, and resistant towards a legalized, centenary system of unimaginable brutal oppression. The root cause, and the "real problem", was not that the slaves decided to commit terrible atrocities towards innocent civilians (and then they had to "defend itself" with more violence), but the *system of oppression of millions of people, sanctioned by the law and the state.*To me, not the particularities, but in regards the essences of the problems, the parallel with Israel today is sadly absurdly close.
UN failed
The organization “Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence” was founded in 1995 after the kidnapping and gang rape of a 12 year old girl by 3 US Servicemen. The organization has chronicled US Military crimes, atrocities, and accidents in Okinawa going back to the Sept 1949 rape/murder of a 9 month old baby girl by a US Serviceman.
Collaborating withe terrorists has consequences.
No proof of any organizational collaboration. You do not close done a Department with 14000 cops is less than 20 of them are alleged to be on the take...
Lol first viewer here
UNRWA is HAMAS
That is not true and just slander. Shame on you.
0:33 it was debunked...
No. It wasn't
@@hadror13It was🤦
prove? pls - i like to learn.
Denial is not debunking.
Like they are doing something my God all the help is there and nobody is stopping this Genocide or Israel... All they want is more funds my God...
It's not the first genocide god has taken sides in