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Can confirm that the above link leads to the official US website for UNRWA!
And here's a reason for hope: the fundraiser is blasting away. They just made $50,000 in the past 3 days - let's keep it going!
"Wait, hold on, I don't know what's going on here"
What's the UNRWA?
"The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, employs thousands of staffers and provides vital aid and services to millions of people across the Middle East. In Gaza, it has been the main supplier of food, water and shelter to civilians during the Israel-Hamas war."
-via PBS, January 29, 2024
If their funding is from the UN and various countries, what's up with this fundraiser?
A massive amount of UNRWA's budget was just cut in the middle of a humanitarian crisis, as the US and a number of other countries cut off aid to UNRWA completely.
They cut off aid due to Israel's allegations that 12 members of UNRWA - out of thousands of employees - were linked to the October 7th attack.
UNRWA has lost so much funding that it's going to massively deepen the humanitarian crisis there - and that funding was cut off despite the fact that, as US Secretary of State Blinken admitted yesterday (January 31, 2024) that Israel's accusations have not "born out" yet, and that the US has not even investigated the allegations themselves.
This is especially glaring and unconscionable because Israel has a documented history of lying about the events of the Israel-Gaza war and their treatment of Palestinians. x, x, x
if you are unable to donate financially to help palestine, you can donate your time by protesting, boycotting, and putting up posters!
if all you have is your device and internet access, you can put your clicks to good use on arab.org. they use the advertising revenue generated by your clicks to help good causes.
and i would urge those able to spare a few dollars to donate to one or more of the following organizations:
Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
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