Showing posts with label Chris Gunness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Gunness. Show all posts
Friday, November 7, 2025

‘Israel has made clear it wants to commit genocide’ ‘Israel has made clear it wants to commit genocide’: Ex-UNRWA official Chris Gunness, a former spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), says the Israeli government is not allowing critical aid into Gaza because it wants to continue its genocidal policies against Palestinians. “There is a litany of – quite frankly – fascistic pretexts” for Israel to maintain its restrictions on humanitarian assistance, Gunness told Al Jazeera. “Let’s be clear on the big picture: Israel has made it clear that it wants to commit a genocide against the Palestinians, it wants to ethnically-cleanse them, and it wants to starve them,” he said, noting that there are millions of aid items waiting to be brought into the enclave. “The big picture is that the reason these items are not being let in … is that there is a genocide going on, there is a collective punishment, there is ethnic cleansing, and there’s a policy of starvation.”

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Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, November 5, 2025 [Haseeb Alwazeer/Reuters] ‘Isra...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

UN’s Palestinian aid agency UNWRA ‘at breaking point’ after $450m budget shortfall

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Palestinian children gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Video: UN official Chris Gunness, in an interview with Al Jazeera, sobs on live TV over deaths of Palestinian children

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Image Credit: YouTube UN official Chris Gunness is brought to tears while being interviewed on television.   [AS ...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

UNRWA digitizes Palestinian refugee experience, documenting the mass displacement of Palestinians from 1948 to the present day.

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" Through over six decades, in times of war and peace, through hope and despair, UNRWA’s photographers were there to capture indivi...