UK to resume funding for Unrwa

David Lammy, the UK’s new foreign secretary, announced on Friday that the UK government is restoring funding for Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, with a pledge of £21m ($27m).
Lammy said that Unrwa is crucial for delivering humanitarian aid into Gaza and for supporting rebuilding efforts in the enclave, particularly once a ceasefire is reached.
The decision to restore funding comes five months after the UK, along with several other western countries, suspended funding to the agency following accusations by Israel that 12 of Unrwa's 30,000 employees had participated in Hamas's surprise attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.
In response to these accusations, the UN commissioned former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna to review the allegations and Unrwa's operations. The inquiry concluded in April and found no evidence of wrongdoing by Unrwa staff.
The report noted that Israeli authorities had not provided "any supporting evidence" for their allegations of links between Unrwa staff and Hamas and did not respond to Unrwa’s requests in March and April for names and evidence necessary to initiate an investigation.
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[@Alex-y2r6p]

There was no reason to stop in the 1st place ffs😊

[@rihanasaid9543]

This decision has more to do with the ICJ ruling I feel. Lammy is a complete and utter muppet.

[@MiMiiViVi]

ICJ ruling is appropriate...just waiting for the arrest warrants.

[@jameswalker7459]

Why is it that everyone else gets funding apart from everyone else's especially those here in UK who needs it..

[@coldbreeze6344]

Money for others but not for Brits

[@MarionThi]

Die Situation in Gaza ist entstanden durch ein britisches Recht!! Daher nicht weinen, sondern demontrieren für Frieden ✌️ Je eher, desto weniger muss UK 🇬🇧 zahlen 😮

[@JillMorgan-x5r]

To late the UK is complicit

[@FathersOfTFW]

we were complicit in stopping aid to terrorists posing as UN humanitarians.

[@iamjacktravels]

​@FathersOfTFW There was no evidence for this except "I say so".

[@user-ug8wx5er1w]

Yeah, all Muslims should leave UK in protest.

[@Alex-y2r6p]

Go and make you bollocs up elsewhere you twanny😊​@@FathersOfTFW

[@yenyeng6867]

​​@@iamjacktravels Maybe true maybe not. How do these extremist groups keep getting money....

[@redacted3740]

As a Brit; too little, too late.

[@lkzwai]

We have tones of problem, living crisis, economy, crime, NHS... we have lot of debt. But new government said, UK citizen? Who cares? Let help other people. That's why UK if falling. The empire odd drowned.

[@karenrobinson129]

Madness!!!

[@hilllot1176]

Why it not like theres more Important things that money can go to like the Country There are meant to be running

[@rihanasaid9543]

Oh dear.

[@hilllot1176]

@@rihanasaid9543 oh dear what you dont like what i say if so say

[@obtuse1291]

I'm sure Israel gets much more from UKI than UNWRA does. 😂

[@yenyeng6867]

True living crisis all round Britain but we have money to send to some backward countries, that probably have no economic grounds like throwing chocolate at a fire futile.

[@mikeycasiogt-r8225]

Absolutely disgusting that labour won’t seek to look after their own nationals first but in the first two weeks ship over 20 million overseas. If this is a sign of things to come I’d rather move to America or a few places in Asia. 😡😡🤬

[@BrianTaylor-n5z]

Is lammy providing this money or the good old British taxpayer

[@brianbird7866]

And so it begins, thanks Labour voters, enjoy your day.😢

[@dshe8637]

Thank goodness

[@Ijeugo1]

You will regret this move. Wrong decision.

[@rossg7261]

Shouldn’t be giving them a penny. That money should be spent helping people who are struggling here first.

[@christianmiller9934]

Yeah yall racists say that but then never do the NHS has been struggling for years

[@darussianping61]

Bad decisions. Unwra is Hamas.

[@ahmedmguero6356]

فلسطين حره

[@Vjaffacake-c6t]

So is Santa Claus and the Easter 🐰

[@EndIslam4ever]

​@@ahmedmguero6356palestine will not be, let alone be free

[@EndIslam4ever]

​@@Vjaffacake-c6tmuslim not welcome anywhere but muslim countries. No one wants them.

[@HaleyChain-vw8rr]

​@@Vjaffacake-c6t and 53 year old a 9 year old girl

[@PatBurgess-g3y]

Why has my comment disagreeing with Lammy been whisked away within seconds of being posted?

[@loveit2942]

Doesn't fit the narrative free speech died long ago in this country

[@leslieholland2476]

U tube censorship

[@FartyMcbongos]

The illusion of democracy.

[@simonhelliwell1443]

Well those tunnels wont rebuild themselves will they.

[@PrettyGoodLookin]

If you were barricaded and blocked in a small part of your own country...that you couldn't leave...wouldn't you possibly build a tunnel ?

[@rihanasaid9543]

Funny 😂

[@simonhelliwell1443]

@@PrettyGoodLookin well I suppose I would need somewhere to hide the rocket launchers

[@PrettyGoodLookin]

@@simonhelliwell1443 Why are you angry to want to use rocket launchers ? Is it bc some people from europe stole your land by force and nobody is fixing this situation for you ?

[@MiMiiViVi]

Most of those tunnels especially with the ornate roofs were not built by Hamas, they were Ottoman or even Egyptian. Most port areas have tunnels and storage for offloading ships. The area is very anncient you know...but everything not "Jewish" ruined.

[@grahamwaz4689]

Shocking…what a disgrace

[@edwardlancaster3659]

Yet more money wasted

[@aazid1]

Wats money?

[@marksingleton7199]

How can you give 20 million to others when people are without housing here and have to live on the streets.

[@trevormannsfield]

Why do people only talk about helping poor Brits when the topic is immigration or foreign aid? You never give a shit normally

[@Unknown-eq6fd]

@@trevormannsfieldyou’re delusional.

[@trevormannsfield]

@@Unknown-eq6fd What have you done for your local homeless?

[@Unknown-eq6fd]

@@trevormannsfield I feed them whenever I can what do you do? Plus why is 20 million going overseas when that can benefit its own people who are struggling make it make sense.

[@trevormannsfield]

@@Unknown-eq6fd Just a quick Google search says the government spends 1-2 billion homelessness. 20 million is pocket change in comparison, I'm not sure what you're so angry about

[@saveBRITAIN-e3n]

Where is this money going exactly? Do we really know??

[@Bill-zb1wc]

@edwardjewish. To feed starving children.

[@marksingleton7199]

​@@Bill-zb1wcThats what they said before and then found Hamas using U.N. buildings and aid.

[@FartyMcbongos]

Into the pockets of corrupt governments to fund more hatred of the west.

[@Alex-y2r6p]

Hasn't that been debunked 😊​@@marksingleton7199

[@Chris-wyt]

No!!!

[@leavesinautumn5959]

Cutting the funding was never justified to begin with ..

[@mci6830]

Funding what ? Do we get to see where the money goes. Stupid question, obviously....

[@Bill-zb1wc]

@leavesinautumn5959 Now they have to back pay billions with interest because mainstream media published Lies.

[@Alex-y2r6p]

​@@mci6830it goes to helping kids and others in gaza stoops 😊

[@leavesinautumn5959]

@@mci6830 Why wouldn't you? UNRWA is a UN agency. All its operations are transparent to its donors. It saves lives, provides education, feeds the hungry and cures the sick in Gaza and those refugees who have fled neighbouring countries. It's only a small amount compared to the money going to Israel and good luck to anyone trying to get any kind of transparency on that.

[@user-ug8wx5er1w]

Shameful.

[@UKsoldier45]

What? After their proven track record! Garbage.

[@SharksOnTheGo]

With what? Pensioners tax?

[@SRRMCS]

why was the aid stopped in the first place.

[@JarwanH]

Claims were made by Israel that Unrwa had employees that took part in 7th October.. 4 out of the 15,000 accused was enough to have multiple EU countries stop funding immediately.

[@MucaadE]

No answers!

[@miggyluv]

Not just claims ​@@JarwanHproven fact.

[@rihanasaid9543]

@@miggyluvlol deluded much

[@miggyluv]

@@rihanasaid9543 have you done the teeniest research? Clearly not.

[@haidawg4806]

id just rather not get involved we spend too much on anything but the uk, we should isolate n focus on us before considering thinking about anywhere else

[@omarahmad9397]

Israel just voted to ban UNRWA .

[@CJ4YRD]

Not necessarily against providing aid. But mate, we help our own first.

[@PaulLiviu]

Hypocrits

[@antirus5481]

So much for my tax money…

[@danniecull2531]

Why do we have to pay something that is going on in the Middle East the Arabian. Countries should be pulling together and helping the the countries from the west we should stay neutral and take neither side

[@eugo5578]

no ffs

[@jenih1684]

£21million to UNRWA, £84million to stop the boats coming from Africa, how much aid for our own homeless and vets on the streets?

[@trevormannsfield]

Just a quick Google search says the government spends in the region of 1-2 billion on the homeless per year. 21 million is basically pennies compared to that lol

[@jenih1684]

@@trevormannsfield 2 billion over 3 years!!

[@trevormannsfield]

@@jenih1684 What have you done to help your local homeless?

[@jenih1684]

@@trevormannsfield not that it is any of your business but I donate monthly to a charity for the homeless, if I see someone on the street I check if they are ok and offer to buy them a meal, which is usually gratefully accepted. What do you do?

[@Alex-y2r6p]

​@@jenih1684which is over 330m per year 😊

[@jediTempleGuard]

As always YT deletes my comments. 🤬

[@davidclemmett4372]

We keep giving aid and they keep buying weapons with it

[@yasmine6171]

restoring funds stoping war is better our sisters and brothers are under bombing now 😢

[@theopensource09]

Thank goodness 🙏 There are some good people left in UK

[@monicaabboud]

Do not hesitate to welcome wisdom, no matter how late it arrives.

[@BOBK-jf4qx]

More like fear of the ICJ ruling implications...

[@yenyeng6867]

Solve the money issues here first before handing out to others ffs, you gotta have a healthy economic balance before helping others.

[@Chris-wyt]

We already pay for them at our homes, this is an oxymoron.

[@Faiter.Re_Ri]

{ وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰٓ إِن تَكَفُرُوْواْ انَتُمْ وَمَن فِيلَّةَ رضِ ِ جَمِيعِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَغَنِيٌّ حَمِيدٌ } [Surah Ibrahim: 8] And Prophet Musa said: "If you and anyone on the face of the earth commits disbelief, then (such a thing does not harm Allah), because indeed Allah is Most Rich, Most Praiseworthy. #freedomforpalestine🇵🇸

[@eugo5578]

reform

[@rahabhassan6541]

❤ 😢 David Lammy, your name will always be synonymous with HUMANITY Fairness and Equality

[@juhaszlaszlo8118]

They have to find out which version of Quran is the least corrupt...😂

[@tahirmahmood5966]

Dont be a hater all your life🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

[@MiMiiViVi]

People want to believe the ancient writings, so what, thats their right. Do you tell Buddhists what to believe? Or Hindus or Catholics

[@mna7308]

have you read your book 😂😂😂most likely the answer will be no😂😂

[@tahirmahmood5966]

@@mna7308 you on crack....

[@mariela7521]

Free Palestine

[@MucaadE]

Because the Palestinian has the right to resist and take their land back,❤❤❤❤

[@miggyluv]

I'm fact the "Palestinian" identity as you know it now was only adopted in 1969 specifically to misinform people like you. Well done for buying into Nazi propaganda.

[@EndIslam4ever]

😂😂😂😂

[@doatbm]

Shocking SMH

[@NorthernMouse52]

We were never asked!

[@kate351]

How about help us brits first , that's essential!!

[@abdulshaikh212shaikh8]

Wonder woman job

[@thetruth476]

One hand feeding and the other choking, better stay neutral UK !

[@stevieh986]

What a joke we are in the UK

[@sose.academy]

.......❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤......

[@AmyLartey]

What utter Rubbish!! Do they know what they doing. Educate yourself! Open your eyes see what is happening around you.

[@kellymckeever.6]

Finally!!!!!

[@tahirmahmood5966]

Thank you

[@elainepettis5075]

Haha. Borrow money to give away. That makes perfect sense.

[@jaynemcfarland3678]

Why did people vote Labour

[@jduthie5074]

Huge mistake.

[@2589003]

What happen to the news Adidas drop the Hadid

[@loudrah326]

This is a disgrace! Why arnt we matching on downing Street since Stalin Starmer got in! For even the comment he made... He will work for Davos not for the nation he put that on twitter..... That is disgusting he went into the job under false pretences....this should be an auto matic dismissal!!! Where are all the good lawyers t challenge him surely they don't want the life we are heading towards for their own daughters, sons, wives.... Someone please help who is in a position to....

[@eamar0509]

Ok ....

[@mci6830]

Lots of money being given away in the first few weeks of labour in power. 4 to 5 years of this 😅

[@theoldempressrv6193]

Surprise surprise.....

[@juhaszlaszlo8118]

11 differences on a page of a quran!

[@juhaszlaszlo8118]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHK1loqqrZ1jopIsi=D1_E6VgCTjjsA97H

[@juhaszlaszlo8118]

UN Watch gave a lot of evidence! UNWRA is a terrorist organisation!

[@neelamacwan7670]

Utter nonsense

[@geoffsullivan4063]

It's the right thing to do. Britain has always sent aid where needed in spite of who is to blame here they are still human and they are not all terrorists.

[@mci6830]

And the aid is always used to enrich the powers that be.

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

Amazing ❤

[@melgon2532]

❤❤❤

[@mohamedhasanaltaraifi6109]

Free Palestine🇵🇸

[@mci6830]

Free? It looks like it's costing us many millions .

[@johnmoore9862]

So what price freedom.

[@Justice-n4r]

Wonderful

[@UKPATRIOT887]

H

[@magenta130]

About time

[@يارب-ط5ب5ب]

احسن الظن في الناس وكأن كل الخير فيهم، واعتمد على نفسك كأنه لا خير في الناس.🎉🤲🧕Free Palestine From Palestine, Gaza City call from Gaza from the midst of war death, hunger, destruction and pain. To the lovers of goodness, a kind greeting to every Muslim from a Palestinian mother from Gaza. The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: “We will never diminish the money you have given in charity.” narrated by Muslim ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''"""""""""""""""""""💔 """"""""""""""""""""""""'""""""""" """" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "'" ""''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''🤲 I have four orphan children, and we are in the midst of a war of extermination, displacement, hunger, pain, wounds, and deprivation. They were martyred in this war. My family and now I'm alone without a father. Today, I make this appeal to you from among the rubble and destruction, my brothers. I live under difficult circumstances, an unjust siege, and a blind war that destroyed my city in which I live, and my home that houses my children’s dreams. Today, I found myself living on top of the ruins of my home in a tent no more than a few meters long, with me and my four children. This is a very difficult thing that no human being can bear. I live in very difficult conditions without food, water, and flour due to the siege, and we drink water. Polluted due to lack of money and my children’s fear of war, and now I am asking for help and assistance in order to restore the smile of life to my children, and I am in dire need of your contribution in order to rebuild my house that was demolished, and I ask (00970592511969)I wrote to you these short words that do not express a little of the pain and wounds that we are experiencing in Gaza, and I write these words to you while tears do not leave my eyes from the pain and cruelty of life. I hope that you will be supporters of my cause in all parts of the world and the ugliness of the injustice that we live in every day, but every minute. We lose loved ones every day. And do not forget the difficulty of life in a small tent that does not exceed a few meters. God was a protector for us from the heat of summer and the cold of winter in the tent, and today all my dreams are to drink a drop of cold, clean water in the summer and feed my children. Praise be to God in any case, this is God’s command. Note: I have a child who is sick in the eye, and he is forbidden by the doctor’s prescription from high heat and sunlight. How can he be in a very hot tent? Therefore, I ask you to help me in maintaining my house. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""يارب قد دقت الدنيا بنا وانت ارحم الراحمين نداء انا عندي اربع طفال ونحن فى ظل حرب الاباده والتهجير والتجويع والالم والجراح والحرمان لقد استشهدوا في هذا الحرب اسرتي وانا الان وحيدة بلا اب واليوم ارسل ندائي هذا من بين الركام والدمار لكم يا إخوتي انا اعيش في ظل ظروف صعبة و حصار ظالم وحرب عمياء ولقد دمرت مدينتي التي اعيش فيها و دمر بيتي الذي يؤوي احلام اطفالي واليوم لقد وجدت نفسي اعيش فوق ركام بيتي في خيمه لا تتجاوز عدت امتار انا واطفالي الاربعه هذا امر صعب جداً لا يتحمله إنسان واعيش ظروف صعبه جداً بدون طعام وماء و طحين بسبب الحصار ونشرب الماء الملوث بسبب قلت الاموال وخوف اطفالي من الحرب والان اطلب يد العون والمساعدة لكي اعيد بسمة الحياة الي اطفالي وانا في امس الحاجه الي المساهمه لكي اعيد بناء بيتي الذي هدم و ارجو منكم المساهمة كتبت لكم هذي الكلمات القصيرة التي لا تعبر الى القليل من الالم والجراح الذي نعيشه فى غزة واكتب لكم كلماتي هذه والدموع لا تفارق عيني من الالم وقسوة الحياة ارجو منكم ان تكونو مناصرين إلى قضيتي في جميع انحاء العالم وقبح الظلم الذي نعيشه في كل يوم بل كل دقيقه ونحن نفقد الاحبه كل يوم. ولا تنسو صعوبة الحياة في خيمة صغيرة لا تتعدى بعض الامتار كان الله لنا معين من حم الصيف والبرد الشتاء فى الخيمة واليوم كل احلامي ان اشرب نقطة ماء باردة ونظيفه في الصيف وطعام اطفالي. الحمدلله على كل حال هذا امر الله.~~♡~♡~ ~♡~♡~/♡~♡~/~♕😭🎉😭🎉😭🎉😭🎉😭😭🎉😭😭🎉🎉~~♡~/♡~♡~♡~/♡/♡//♡/♡//♡/♡/♡//🧕🧕🤝🤝🧕🧕🧕🧕🧕🧕🧕

[@فاطمهعبدلله-ت6د]

I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who brought us to this situation. By Allah Almighty, I did not write this appeal out of distress and distress. Poverty, O world, they have felt it So, I hope for you. By Allah Almighty, Lord of the Great Throne, he ate what I had in the house. By Allah, my brothers, he is my brothers by sitting in the house. Who has no food? By God, we are in a very difficult situation. We have 4 people entering the house, and my father has died, and there is no one who can depend on us and who lives in it.We live in a rented house because we cannot pay the rent we owe. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' My brother, my first words are: I swear to God that I will not lie to you or deceive you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced from the war. My family and I live in a rented house in Al-Shahrab 20,000 Yemenis among us, and now we owe 60,000 for 3 months. The owner of the house is one of the people who does not have mercy, by God, my brother. He comes every day, insulting us, talking about us, and moving from the house to the street because we were unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and came back.They came back to talk to the neighbors and we were given the weekend. So we made him swear by God. He will take us out into the street. Have mercy on him and us. Our country is due to this war and we do not find food for our day, and my brothers and I live in a difficult life. Our father died, may God have mercy on him, and we have no one in this world who was with us in these harsh circumstances. My younger brothers went out into the street and saw...The neighbors eat and stand at their door in order to give them bread even if they break it. By God, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, they closed the door and expelled them and came back crying. They are dying of hunger. No one has mercy on them and a holiday is returned. I have made a living, and now if one of us helps us with a kilo of flour, I swear to God, I am dying of hunger. My brother, I am an alien to God. Then, I ask you to help me for the sake of God. I ask you, by God, to love goodness and to help me, even if you can, by messaging me on WhatsApp.On this number 00967739638035 and ask for the name of my card and send it and do not be late and may God reward you with all the best, my brothers Sagar, see how they are and help us and save us before they throw us out in the street, you will be lost or we will die of hunger. My family and I ask you, by God, if you are able to help us, do not be late and may God reward you well..`/--~«««~-♡~♡~♡~~•~•~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~~♡♡♡;~،~~.، ~:~¡~¡~¡،،~;:I.i.i.i.i.ii!}°𝖊≋𝖊𝖊~≋𝖊. i.I.|-◖,'˹˛˹˛˹˛˹˛˹˹˛˹˛˹`/,˛,`,.;!•.|ii,.];&&/;&🕋☪️☪️🎉😢😢😢😢

[@adolfodias1681]

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD UNITE !! FREE PALESTINE FREEE THE WORLD!!

[@martinfairbairn1052]

Shame 😢