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Right now, UNRWA is under a concerted attack by Israel and its backers.
Following accusations by Israel that 12 out of thousands of UNRWA staffers in Gaza were involved in the October 7 resistance offensive, the United States and other Western countries have frozen funding to the agency.
The UN agency for Palestine refugees is the last lifeline for Palestinians in Gaza who rely on the meager rations the agency can provide.
“It is deeply shocking – indeed inhumane – that several governments have taken decisions that will cause further suffering to two million Palestinians, who are already facing the risk of genocide and an engineered famine just days after the International Court of Justice ruling concluded that the survival of Palestinians in Gaza is at risk,” Amnesty International said in reaction to the freeze.
After a news brief from Nora Barrows-Friedman, we will be joined once again by Chris Gunness, who served as spokesperson for UNRWA for more than a decade.
We will talk to Chris about Israel’s years-long campaign to destroy the agency and ask him how he thinks the UN should be responding.
We will also be joined by Laila El-Haddad.
Laila is a Palestinian journalist, writer, public speaker, gardener, foodie and mom. She’s the author of the books Gaza Mom and The Gaza Kitchen. She co-edited Gaza Unsilenced with Refaat Alareer.
Laila is a plaintiff in the federal lawsuit against Joe Biden, alleging that the president and other senior US officials have failed in their legal duty to prevent, and are complicit in, Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The first hearing in the case was held in federal court in Oakland, California, last week.
Also in this program, Ali Abunimah will give us an update on the latest fallout from the fraudulent New York Times article alleging mass rapes by Hamas fighters on 7 October, and with Jon Elmer we will discuss the latest developments with the resistance on the ground in Gaza and across the region.
Please join us live on YouTube at this link.
1900 Palestine time / 1700 GMT / 1700 UK / 1800 CET / 11 am CT / 12 pm ET / 9 am PT
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