Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the law.
Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the law.
And then the US blocked aid to Gaza as well…
Hell, they passed a fucking law against it.
A couple are trying to undo it, but they dont have party leadership on their side, despite no valid reason
https://carson.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-carson-jayapal-schakowsky-introduce-unrwa-funding-bill
Well, “blocked aid” can be a little ambiguous. Private organizations in the US are allowed to fund UNRWA and have done so, see for example https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/news-releases/unrwa-usa-resumes-funding-un-agency-palestine-refugees-providing-5-million
What remains paused (and what the bill you reference is trying to unpause early) is, along with New Zealand, US gov’t funding to the agency, which currently is scheduled to be lifted (rather late) on March 2025 as per https://unwatch.org/updated-list-of-countries-suspending-unwra-funding/
That’s still quite bad, but it’s not as bad as preventing individual US donors too.