{"id":2161562,"date":"2024-01-28T21:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T02:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/japan-joins-list-of-countries-halting-funding-for-unrwa-due-to-links-to-hamas-attack\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T02:54:08","slug":"japan-joins-list-of-countries-halting-funding-for-unrwa-due-to-links-to-hamas-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/japan-joins-list-of-countries-halting-funding-for-unrwa-due-to-links-to-hamas-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan stops funding UNRWA over Hamas attack ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjapan-joins-list-of-countries-halting-funding-for-unrwa-due-to-links-to-hamas-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2161562&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Japan Halts Funding to UN\u2064 Agency Amid Allegations of \u200bStaff\u2063 Involvement in Hamas Attacks<\/h2>\n<p>Japan\u200c has joined a growing list of countries suspending their \u2064funding to the United\u2063 Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following allegations that agency\u200b staff members\u200d were \u2063involved in the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel \u200con October 7. This decision comes \u200dafter the United States,\u200d United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and others withdrew their financial support.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Japanese foreign press\u2062 secretary \u2062Kobayashi Maki expressed deep concern over the alleged involvement of UNRWA\u2062 staff\u200b members in the attack. As a result, Japan has decided to temporarily halt additional funding to the agency while an \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/photographer-who-took-horseback-border-patrol-photos-ive-never-seen-them-whip-anyone\/\" title=\"Photographer Who Took Horseback Border Patrol Photos: \u2018I\u2019ve Never Seen Them Whip Anyone\u2019\">investigation takes place<\/a> and measures are considered to address the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Kobayashi assured\u200c that Japan \u2062remains committed to\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gavin-newsom-travels-to-israel-to-offer-support-in-war-against-hamas\/\" title=\"Gavin Newsom aids Israel in battle against Hamas.\">providing\u2063 humanitarian aid<\/a> to\u200b Gaza\u200d through \u200balternative means, \u200balthough specific details were \u2064not provided. She\u200c also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economists-push-for-another-round-of-stimulus-checks\/\" title=\"Economists Push for Another Round of Stimulus Checks\">expressed support<\/a> for the \u200bU.N.&#8217;s investigation into \u200bthe matter.<\/p>\n<p>While \u200cdetails about the \u2064accused staffers&#8217; actions during the\u200b Hamas attack are limited, the UNRWA\u200c has \u2063already terminated their employment. One\u2064 staff member was\u2064 accused of harboring an Israeli \u2062hostage in their attic.<\/p>\n<p>The UNRWA was established shortly after the creation of Israel, with a focus on providing educational, healthcare, employment, and\u2063 social services to Palestinians who had been recently \u200bdisplaced.<\/p>\n<h3>Read\u200b More:<\/h3>\n<p>For more information on this topic, visit \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> Why has Japan decided to \u200dsuspend its funding to the UNRWA?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Japan has followed \u2062in the footsteps of several other nations\u2064 by suspending its funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The\u2064 decision comes in light of\u200b allegations that staff members of the agency were involved in the recent Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel \u2062on October \u20627. The United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and other countries have already withdrawn their financial support to\u2063 the agency.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, \u200bthe Japanese foreign press secretary, Kobayashi Maki, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-condemns-hamas-attack-on-israel\/\" title=\"Biden denounces Hamas assault on Israel.\">expressed\u200b deep concern<\/a> regarding the alleged involvement of UNRWA staff members in the attack. \u200bAs a result, Japan has \u2064decided to temporarily halt additional funding to the agency while an investigation takes place and appropriate measures are\u200d considered to address the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Kobayashi assured that Japan remains dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sullivan-indicates-u-s-could-provide-economic-aid-to-taliban\/\" title=\"Sullivan indicates U.S. could provide economic aid to Taliban\">providing humanitarian aid<\/a> to Gaza but through alternative means, though specific details were not provided. She \u2062also expressed support for the United Nations&#8217; investigation \u2062into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u200c are limited details available regarding the actions of the accused UNRWA staff members during the \u2063Hamas attack, the agency has already\u200d terminated\u2062 their employment. One staff member was accused of harboring an Israeli hostage in their attic.<\/p>\n<p>The UNRWA was established shortly after the creation of Israel, with the primary focus of providing educational, healthcare, employment, and social services to \u2062Palestinians who \u200bhad been recently displaced.<\/p>\n<p>For more information\u200b on this topic, interested readers can visit The Washington Examiner website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has joined the list of countries suspending funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. This decision follows allegations that agency staff were involved in the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel. The US, UK, Germany, Canada, and other major donors had already withdrawn their support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}