{"id":882,"date":"2024-10-29T08:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=882"},"modified":"2024-10-29T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T16:40:34","slug":"more-evidence-of-outright-genocide-israeli-mps-vote-to-ban-un-refugee-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"MORE EVIDENCE OF OUTRIGHT GENOCIDE! Israeli MPs vote to ban UN refugee agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli parliament has adopted two bills blocking the work of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which helps Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The UNRWA was established in 1949, to deal with Palestinian refugees after the creation of the state of Israel and the ensuing Arab-Israeli war. West Jerusalem has accused it of aiding and abetting Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Knesset voted 92-10 in favor of the bill declaring that UNRWA will no longer\u00a0<em>\u201coperate any institution, provide any service, or conduct any activity, whether directly or indirectly\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in Israel.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUNRWA long ago ceased to be a humanitarian aid agency, but in addition to it being an integral supporter of terror and hate, is an agency to eternalize poverty and suffering,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Yuli Edelstein said ahead of the vote on Monday. He also cited Israeli claims that UNRWA employees had participated in the October 7 Hamas attack.<\/p>\n<p>The UN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/602228-unrwa-workers-hamas-attack\/\">fired nine UNRWA employees<\/a>\u00a0in August, after suspicions emerged that they might have been involved in the Hamas incursion last year. Another ten employees were cleared of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>After the bill passed, Edelstein called it\u00a0<em>\u201chistoric\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and said it amounted to\u00a0<em>\u201celimination of one of the arms of terror that acted under UN auspices.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/606651-israel-knesset-unrwa-ban\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/606651-israel-knesset-unrwa-ban\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}