Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza

Each day, we see more children’s images with protruding ribs, sunk eyes and fragile bodies that cling to life. We consider chaos and pandemonium as tens of thousands of besieged and hungry Palestinians descends the convoys of rare food authorized to enter Gaza. And we have seen more than 1000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces while desperately looking for food in “aid distribution centers” operated by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

In a shocking testimony during the weekend, the former American green beret Anthony Aguilar, formerly a GHF entrepreneur, described the blind violence against Palestinian civilians during his stay in Gaza, including the use of living ammunition on unarmed civilians in search of food. He called it a war crime.

Famine and humanitarian aid have been armed by the GHF supported by the United States, while Israel came out of UNRWA, the humanitarian aid with the longest successful food operation on the planet. For 75 years, UNRWA has brought food and help to Gaza. Right now, UNRWA has 6,000 trucks waiting just beyond the border with enough food to provide for the entire Gaza population for three months. How, then, did we arrive at a place where Israel has tried to restrict UNRWA, and the UN as a whole, to do the work they know best? Work they do with humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence – the four fundamental principles that guide the distribution of aid.

Israel says that it is because UNRWA and the UN allowed humanitarian aid to be diverted by Hamas. However, three major reports published during the weekend show that this is fundamentally not true. Last week, it was reported that USAID had found No evidence of diversion of the generalized aid by Hamas in Gaza. SATURDAY, The New York Times indicated that Israeli military officials found No evidence that Hamas has regularly stolen aid no. In addition, in a shocking presentation on the Israeli channel Kan 2, a TSAhal denunciator said that the Israeli army had destroyed the content of 1,000 aid trucks, buried the evidence and blamed the missing aid on the “Diversion of Hamas”. Netanyahu and others continued to openly marry lies on UNRWA and the effectiveness of the aid sponsored by non – – as recently on Monday, after the publication of these reports – despite clear evidence of the contrary.

Tragically, UNRWA has long been the subject of a deliberate and coordinated propaganda campaign – the one that only accelerated after the October 7 attacks led by Hamas in Israel.

One of the most serious efforts in Israel to discredit UNRWA focused on its charge that the agency was a spiritual collaborator with Hamas. Israel continued to press this charge in the end unrwa Immediately Fired nine of its 13,000 Employes on the basis of a report by a’s high investigatory that “Evidence provided” COULD, “If Authenticated and CorroBorated,” Concludes that these Staff Members “May Have” ATROCITES OF OCTOBER 7. And Israel continued to amplify Unsubstantaled altegations about Unrwa’s Staff Despite the Findings of the Independent Colonna Report, Which Concluded, in 2024, that UNRWA has a more developed approach to neutrality than any of its UN and NGO peers. No evidence was provided to support any of the countless other armed allegations of Israel against UNRWA, despite the repeated evidence of UNRWA. Israel has also checked each UNRWA employee for two decades and had not objected to any of the advanced staff since 2011.

Despite what the coordinated disinformation campaign would make you believe, UNRWA has been sidelined by the distant government of Israel precisely because of its role in maintaining Palestinian refugees and the hope of Palestinian freedom and living self -determination. Her “replacement” sinister and fatal agency – GHF – must be recognized for the killing machine that it is and rest.

The attenuation of the famine of a besieged population should not be in the hands of the entity which besieged it and caused the famine itself that it claims to fade. More importantly, when the famine reaches a tilting point, as we have started to see with deaths of death, this requires a massive increase in food and medical aid, clean water and health care, and not a fragmentary approach to limited delivery of food aid and sponsors.

UNRWA and its UN partners must be allowed to make their essential jobs, which provides full access to humanitarian aid which is both principles and which can reach the entire Gaza strip on a large scale. Such a change must take place immediately before the blood of up to up to 2 million people, including a million children, with all our hands.