{"id":12900,"date":"2024-01-28T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T15:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=12900"},"modified":"2024-01-28T15:55:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T15:55:20","slug":"norway-ireland-to-support-unrwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/28\/norway-ireland-to-support-unrwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway, Ireland to Support UNRWA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Norway has welcomed the UN agency for Palestinian refugees&#8217; investigation into the alleged involvement of some of its staffers in the October 7 attacks on Israel, saying the country will continue to support Palestinians through the agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Norway continues our support for the Palestinian people through UNRWA. International support for Palestine is needed now more than ever, &#8221; Norway&#8217;s Representative Office to Palestine said on X, referring to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees or UNRWA.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the situation in Gaza &#8220;catastrophic,&#8221; it said the UN agency is the &#8220;most important humanitarian organisation&#8221; in the besieged enclave.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Israeli accusation that some of the agency&#8217;s staffers were involved in the October 7 attacks, the US, the UK, Italy, Australia, Canada, Finland and the Netherlands all decided to suspend funding to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to distinguish between what individuals may have done and what UNRWA stands for,&#8221; Norway said.<\/p>\n<p>It added the organisation&#8217;s tens of thousands of employees in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and the region play a &#8220;crucial role&#8221; in distributing aid, saving lives and safeguarding basic needs and rights.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland has also voiced support for the UN agency as it investigates allegations of involvement by some of its staffers in the October 7 attacks but said it will not pause funding for the agency&#8217;s work in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees provided life-saving assistance to 2.3 million people and at incredible personal cost with over 100 staff killed in the last four months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ireland has no plans to suspend funding for UNRWA&#8217;s vital Gaza work,&#8221; underlined Martin.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Ireland provided the UNRWA $19.5M in 2023 and will continue its support in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 Norway has welcomed the UN agency for Palestinian refugees&#8217; investigation into the alleged involvement of some of its staffers in the October 7 attacks on Israel, saying the country will continue to support Palestinians through the agency. &#8220;Norway continues our support for the Palestinian people through UNRWA. International support for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12902,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12900\/revisions\/12902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}