The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is disastrous. In order to alleviate the suffering, Germany is yet again increasing its humanitarian assistance for people in the Palestinian territories. You can find out more here.
They also cut the payment to UNRWA and continue to keep it cut based on the allegations Israel brought forth a day after the ICJ ruled measures Israel needs to abide by, in aprticular improving the access of humanitarian aid.
The news here is a measly 8 million € that are far from being enough to alleviate the immediate catastrophe. For reference Germany has so far commited about a 130 million to humanitarian aid in Gaza since Oct. 7, but more than 300 million in weapons to Israel.
while i have to agree to the sarcasm, as this conflict is built on lies, deceipt and propaganda for over 40 years, the claims against the UNRWA have not been solely made by Israel alone.
But i most definitely have to stop discussing about this whole topic, as i have posted some very wrong things yesterday and was very non-civil in my arguments to say the least.
i apologize for the comment above, as it's missing the entire context that i didn't provide with it.
Image management from the guys who proclaimed "unwavering support for Israel" the day the death toll for Palestinian children crossed 4000, criticized the bringing of a case against Israel for Genocide to the ICJ, immediatelly stopped contributions to the UNWRA following unconfirmed and unchecked allegations from Israel against less than 1% of its people in Gaza and who continue to provide military and financial help to Israel.
Racist "genocide is fine if done by the right people against 'human animals'" Nazi-lovers, now trying to use modern Marketing and PR techniques to manage their image whilst they "unwaveringly" support mass murder.
In case you missed that part, Israel didn't provide any proof for their claim that UNRWA employees were indeed involved on the 7th of October.
And even if we accept that those employees were indeed involved we are talking about 13/30.000, 0.04% of their total number of employees.
Do you defund the Bundeswehr or the German Police because they found out that some employees there were Neo-Nazis? I don't think so.
Plus I didn't hear anyone actually suggesting a viable alternative to the UNRWA. Or shall we simply let those people die of starvation? Because this is what is actually happening on the ground.
Israel is accusing 12 UNRWA employees to have taken part in the Hamaz raid on Israel on December 7th. That would make them active terrorists. Furthermore Israel is saying that about 190 UNRWA employees are members of Hamaz or the Islamic Jihad. That would be 0.6% if true. As for the Bundeswehr or German Police, you would see everybody suspected of terrorism being suspended immediately. This is looking especially bad, as the IDF seems to have found a large bunker system used by Hamaz under the Gaza HQ of UNRWA. If this turns out to be true, that really makes the entire organization look bad. I am very certain the Bundeswehr would be dissolved, if they would find a hidden Neo Nazi terror organization bunker under the HQ of the Bundeswehr.
This is the trick.... how to get aid into the hands of the people who need it without empowering the terrorists who have control of the place from top to bottom.
This is by design and intent by Hamas in case that wasn't entirely obvious.