Sometimes typos can be traditions too. IOW, it's intentional and not because I'm posting before I've had a covfefe.
Anywho, this is about how the US, Canada, and a bunch of other countries who filed condemnations of Myanmar during the Gambia's genocide case against them at the ICJ decided to respond to the ICJ provisional measures order by cutting off funding to UNRWA. IOW, by fully participating in the genocide.
Anyways, the move was because the IDF had "evidence" that 12 UNRWA employees were part of the Hamas attack on October 7. Evidence they got from "questioning" people they have had in custody since October 7. Here's the update. It's now four, and maybe two more. Allegedly.
A reminder - most of the defunding countries have acknowledged that the UNRWA has been doing an amazing job, that it has saved countless lives, and that with famine and disease so widespread it is needed more than ever. Also, they have noted that it is impossible to replace them - that no one else could distribute humanitarian at the scale UNRWA manages. But if the IDF says they should be defunded, well that's what a Western democracy just has to do.
Another reminder - the ICJ decision cited the convention (and South Africa's written submission) in one of the orders. Israel is supposed to prevent many things including the following:
deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
Cutting off aid to the group while they are in famine and ravaged by disease? When they have no access to food or water? In fact - the ICJ ruling specifically addresses this component:
The State of Israel shall take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip;
At this point - the countries cutting off funding might have crossed the line. The line separating complicity from active participation.
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