Published January 29,2024
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Japan has joined the US, UK and different Western nations to halt funding to the UN company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) over Israeli allegations that some staffers of the humanitarian group had been concerned within the Oct. 7 offensive by Hamas.
The Foreign Ministry in an announcement late Sunday mentioned it determined to halt “additional aid for the time being while UNRWA conducts an investigation into the matter and considers measures to address the allegations.”
Tokyo, nonetheless, acknowledged that the company “plays a crucial role” in offering important companies corresponding to well being and medical care, training, welfare, and meals help to tens of millions of Palestinian refugees in cooperation with the worldwide neighborhood.
“Especially in the Gaza Strip, where the humanitarian situation is deteriorating further, UNRWA plays a vital role in delivering essential humanitarian assistance to each and every resident,” it mentioned.
So far, the US, Italy, Australia, Canada, the UK, France, and Finland have all determined to droop funding to the UN company.
Despite an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling to forestall acts of genocide in Gaza, Israel continues its onslaught on the territory which has killed greater than 26,000 individuals, principally ladies and kids, displaced greater than 80% of its inhabitants and created circumstances for a famine.
Israel says almost 1,200 individuals had been killed within the preliminary Hamas assault.
UNRWA has been the primary provider of meals, water and shelter to civilians in Gaza through the battle.
Meanwhile, Maldives has determined to hunt an “opportunity to file a declaration of intervention” on the ICJ on the appliance by South Africa, citing that Israel is in breach of the Genocide Convention, mentioned Foreign Minister Moosa Zameer.
Source: www.anews.com.tr