CODEPINK Disrupts House Hearing on Defunding UNRWA
Channel: CODEPINK
Date: 2024-01-30

Tell The Biden Admin: Gaza Needs Aid, Restore Funding to UNRWA Now! https://www.codepink.org/restoreunrwa

Today in Congress, five people were arrested for disrupting the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing focused on discrediting and defunding UNRWA, the largest provider of aid to Palestinians in Gaza.

Even though the World Court has issued provisional measures demanding Israel cease the destruction of Palestinian life and ensure that aid flows into Gaza, Israel has retaliated by accusing a dozen UNRWA members of being part of Hamas.

Without UNRWA, there is no other organization with the capacity and infrastructure to deliver desperately needed life-saving aid to Palestinian refugees, particularly those who continue to face Israeli bombardment. To undermine and defund UNRWA is a direct attack on the survival of Palestinian civilians and is a violation of the ICJ’s provisional measures.

We will not, we can not, remain silent as the U.S. continues its complicity in the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestine. While our leaders are bought & bossed by AIPAC and other pro-Israel lobby groups, the people are driven by nothing but compassion and love for humanity.

We demand the immediate reinstatement of funding to UNRWA to ensure the well-being of the people of Gaza. We demand a ceasefire and an end to the siege on Gaza. FREE PALESTINE!