In recent days, the situation in the Middle East has taken a new turn. Israel had recently accused some of the staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Near East (UNRWA) of being involved in terrorist activities against Israel.
On January 28, local time, United Nations Secretary-General Guterres released the results of an investigation into the matter, a total of 12 people were involved, 9 were fired, one was confirmed dead, and the identities of the other 2 were being verified.
It stands to reason that the results of the UN investigation have come out, and the people involved have been punished, and this incident should be closed, and any collective may have a scandal of violations of rules and discipline, and it is enough to solve it.
But how can Israel and Western countries give up this opportunity to discredit Palestine?
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) disburs
The West followed up with the suspension of funding to UNRWA
After the incident, the United States, the agency's largest donor, announced that it would suspend funding, and then Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands and other countries followed suit, turning the incident into an international incident.
Why would the United States and the West do this? They want to discredit the United Nations.
Since the outbreak of the new round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has taken a relatively impartial position, condemning the Hamas attacks while repeatedly calling for a ceasefire in Israel, which has angered the United States, Israel and other Western countries.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres
Now that there is a scandal in the UN subordinate bodies, the United States and Israel will seize the opportunity to expand the incident, no matter how big or small the matter is.
In fact, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Relief and Works in the Near East (UNRWA) had 13,000 employees and only 12 people involved, and it was absurd to use this incident to discredit its entire work and even cut off its funding.
During this period, Israel was very passive in the international community, and on 26 January, the International Court of Justice issued a ruling ordering Israel to take all measures to prevent genocide, and international public opinion was quite unfavorable to Israel.
Now that there is a problem in the subordinate organs of the United Nations, Israel has finally found an opportunity to "win back the city", so it has encouraged the United States and Western countries to make a big deal about this matter.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
"Collective punishment" of UN bodies
During this period, the international community has demanded that Israel cease fire, but Israel wants to transform the Gaza Strip into a place under its own control without Hamas, and the main reason is "anti-terrorism".
But now as soon as this scandal at the United Nations broke out, Israel instantly found an excuse to attack the entire United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees and Works Agency for "supporting terrorism" in order to provide a certain sense of legitimacy for its continued occupation of Gaza.
The Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, Haque, said that UNRWA has a good overall record, and the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Razzarini, recently said that only a very small number of people were involved.
Supplies in the Gaza Strip
The United Nations, for its part, has terminated the contracts of these men and conducted a transparent independent investigation, which Western countries have used as a reason to cut off funding, effectively a collective punishment of the people of Gaza.
This view can be said to be to the point, and collective punishment is exactly what Israel has long done to the people of the Gaza Strip. When more than a dozen of UNRWA's 10,000 people went wrong, Israel targeted the entire Agency.
Hamas accounts for only a tiny fraction of the 2 million people in the Gaza Strip, yet Israel has carried out indiscriminate attacks on all of Gaza's people. Since the end of the cold war, such barbarism has been rare in the international community.
Israeli soldiers
To put it bluntly, on this issue, it is still the "fist" that has the final say. The main reason why Israel dares to be so tough is that it is strong in its own power and has the support of the United States and Western countries, so it despises the United Nations and international justice and justice.
In fact, accusing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Near East Refugees and Works Agency (UNRWA) is the most "civilized" approach of Israel, and it has attacked UN peacekeeping facilities and convoys many times before, killing and injuring UN peacekeepers.
For now, the chaos in the Gaza Strip will continue for a long time, and Israel's withdrawal is becoming far away. Facts have fully proven that the hegemony of the United States and the Western world is the real root of all evil, and only by completely ending their hegemony can there be peace in the Middle East.