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**From the [NYT’s](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/gaza-unrwa-hamas-israel.html) via [Archive.ph](https://archive.ph/h6Jpy)**

**If you had any doubt this was not a politically motivated move.**

> The o**rganization provides vital aid to more than five million Palestinian refugees scattered across the Middle East, whose future and status have never been resolved despite years of negotiations.**

> But **to its critics, including many Israelis, the agency is an obstacle to resolving the conflict. Its very existence, they say, `prevents Palestinian refugees from integrating into new communities` and `stokes their dreams of one day returning to what is now Israel `**— **a goal that Israel says it will never allow.** And in Gaza, Israel argues, UNRWA has fallen under the influence of Hamas, a claim the agency rejects.

**So, UNRWA existence prevents Palestinians from leaving land Israel considers god given. And stokes the belief in a right to return to their own home and land. Apparently this is a right for Israeli’s only?**

> **This is not the first time the United States has cut off money to the U.N. agency**. The **Trump administration `suspended aid as part its efforts to pressure the Palestinian leadership to stop demanding that refugees be allowed to return to Israel.`**
> 
> But **the current threat to its funding is considered to be the gravest in its history because it comes at a time of crisis for Gaza.**
> 
> **Amid warnings of famine, the collapse of the health system and the massive displacement of the Palestinian population**, UNRWA’s work is considered more important than ever. I**t helps coordinate the distribution of the supplies of aid — however meager — that arrive each day in southern Gaza, and its schools provide shelter to more than a million Gazans, according to the agency’s statistics.**

> The funding suspensions may be felt quickly. Unlike other U.N. agencies, **UNRWA has no strategic financial reserve.** On Sunday, Mr. Guterres said services might need to be reduced beginning in February.

> A day earlier, the agency’s commissioner-general, Philippe Lazzarini, warned of impending catastrophe.

> “***It would be immensely irresponsible to sanction an agency and an entire community it serves because of allegations of criminal acts against some individuals, especially at a time of war, displacement and political crises in the region,”*** he said

**It would be immensely irresponsible to sanction this agency at this time if the concern was legitimately humanitarian. However, if the concern/goal was to get the Palestinians displaced quicker, “encourage” them to accept integration into new communities** **(displacement) while giving up on their right to return, cutting off the funding for this agency would be exactly the right move.**

**We understand this is a purely political move. To advance a political agenda**.