Hamas strike on Israel - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

They have been confirmed by the head of the agency, who said he has sacked some staff.

The allegations relate to 50% of the staff being involved with Hamas. That needs investigation.

We expect more from a allegedly neutral UN organisation.

Yes Blanch, especially in the middle of a genocide.

Sorry to break it to you but Irish people have empathy, they dont want to see children dying due to lack of food, water and basic medical care. Or do you think the children are to blame for attacking Israel? Calling Irish people anti semitic is like calling the pope a Muslim, no human being could be that silly.

So to repeat, the fact that "nobody wants" Palestinians proves that the Palestinians are undesirables (or as strongly implied - subhuman)?

Whereas the fact that "nobody wanted" the Jewish people proves that everyone else was just racist?

Same broad scenario, completely contradictory conclusions.................Pick and choose random a-la-carte masquerading as some kind of "logic"

First, you’re the one chucking the word “racists” about. I just called you out again for it so you are really describing your own tactic.

Secondly, I didn’t say it was a defining factor but it’s certainly interesting to me. I’m not sure anyone has answered the original post btw especially since you tried to confuse the issue with your weak racism ‘argument’. It’s interesting to me that it appears the local wealthy countries aren’t as interested and/or invested as the evil westerners.

No empathy shown for the victims of the Palestinian terrorist attack of October 7th somehow. That you think Irish people cannot be antisemitic is nonsensical. There are plenty of antisemites in this country.

How many terrorists must UNRWA employ before you would support withdrawing funding? It is inappropriate to give money to an organisation whose members participated in the greatest killing of Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Gazans elected Hamas. They support Hamas. They overwhelming supported the terrorist attack of October 7th according to a survey conducted by a Palestinian university. It's a shame that children will needlessly die in this conflict.

Palestinians should leave terror and Jihadism behind. It has brought them nothing good.

How many terrorist IDF soldiers should be allowed to be captured live on camera executing defenseless Palestinian civilians before the Western countries stop sending the zionists that lovely money and weapons?

We've had plenty of examples - not least them shooting "their own" 3 people - literally explained away by a spokesperson at the time as being that they were shot because they were dressed like Palestinian civilians. The woman walking across the square waving the white flag with her child. The man caught on camera last week by the ITV correspondent also waving the white flag and getting shot as he walked down the street (it was even raised in the UK parliament).

Will you call for any action on those? Most likely not. But will you chomp at the bit at any excuse to starve the Gazan population ......... your post gives the impression you would. All we have is an initial claim that the IDF got 12 names from "interrogating terrorists". Less than one tenth of one percent of their employees........and even at that the Israelis later changed to their claim to being that they got the info from surveillance..............but a good enough excuse for many to collectively condemn a population to even more starvation.

Israel gets what it wants. It is in control and cultivates the environment in which certain groups are the only ones that can prosper. The is an irony in someone with your username being apparently oblivious to such facts.

Irish people have plenty of empathy for the Oct 7th attacks, it's just we don't think it gives a licence for murdering thousands of innocent children. Hamas attacked Israel not Palestine or are you trying to claim children in gaza have blood on their hands? Antisemites in Ireland exist in your imagination due to the fact that you cannot grasp the fact that anti Zionism and anti semitism are very different. I like Jewish people but I draw the line at Jewish people who think nothing of young children getting murdered.

I'm in favour of waiting till we have had a chance to investigate into how many UNWRA employees were involved in Oct 7th before making our decision. If Israel want to be viewed as a civilised country then surely they should care about children starving to death.

Yes terrorism makes things worse but murdering civilians tends to produce more terrorists

They've been saying it for ages that funds to the UNRWA were going straight to Hamas and that they were deeply involved with the terrorists. One of the released hostages had said she was held in a UNRWA teacher's house also. The people who don't believe it now didn't believe it then either shockingly

Again, I asked for FACTS about the central argument. Not ad hominems.

If there are facts to share, it shouldn't require asking 3 times for them to appear.

That's exactly it. UNRWA is terrorist and the Irish government is financing it.

Just lovely where your tax money goes to?

Wouldn't it be better to finance another LUAS line in Dublin? Or a bit more housing for Ireland?

Ahh. So this is where you say it's ok to bomb innocent women because it's better for them? These bombs don't discriminate between men and women, unlike Hamas? is that the defense for bombing innocent children?

So you are call Israeli's scum for preventing Hamas getting aid?

Crazy stuff.