Trump suffocates the Palestinians when freezing the funds for UNRWA

Benjamín Netanyahu is the first foreign president Donald Trump receives at the White House since he has returned to the presidency of the United States. The invitation itself is already a declaration of intentions, in addition, the president has made clear what part is in the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

In his second term, Trump will not return to finance the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which is in a very complicated situation after last week an Israeli law that prohibits its performance in Israel – which, in practice, prevents him from operating in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip, where he is the main humanitarian actor.

During his first term, between 2017 and 2021, Trump has already suspended the financing questioning the work of UNRWA, whose role has been very questioned by Israel and his allies since the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, in which The Netanyahu government ensures that workers of the Humanitarian Agency participated.

Precisely, after those accusations and before any official investigation, the previous US administration suspended in January 2024 300 and 400 million dollars annually. Washington’s decision was followed by other Western countries, which gradually reversed it, as doubts about the role of the agency in the assault of Hamas were cleared. However, President Biden did not change his position before leaving the White House on January 20. This Tuesday, Trump has signed an executive order with which he withdraws from UNRWA – an agency that supports some 6 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

In addition, Trump has also taken the US of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a measure that he already adopted in his first mandate, when the representative of her administration before the UN, Nikki Haley, claimed that there was a “ Chronic prejudice against Israel. ” Haley said in 2018 that “the endless hostility towards Israel” It was proof that the Council acted based on political prejudices and not on human rights.

Good harmony from the first mandate

Trump and Netanyahu coincide in their criticisms and their displacements to the UN, but the two leaders have shown a very good harmony in other matters, since the first mandate of the Republican. At that time, Trump made several Arab countries recognize the state of Israel and sign the so -called Abraham agreements, with which they normalized their relations; In addition, the Republican moved the US Embassy of Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, thus recognizing the Holy City is the capital of Israel, as the Jewish state claims.

Now, Netanyahu sees the opportunity to have even more wide manga than he had with Joe Biden – who supported the Israeli punishment war against Gaza from October 2023 until the end of his presidency. When Trump won the elections last November, the Israeli prime minister announced a plan for the high fire in Lebanon (after weeks of intense bombings and the terrestrial invasion of the south of the country) as a “gift” for the winner and future president .

For his part, the Republican hung the medal for having reached a high -fire agreement in Gaza in the last days of the Biden administration – which had been trying to cease hostilities with Hamas – after the hostilities since last May – after the Intervention of its special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. Trump has been breastfeeding for the release of Israeli hostages who have been able to get out of Gaza and during the first days of truce in the strip presumed to have fulfilled his promise of “peace” in the region.

Until Netanyahu’s visit this week, the president had made clear his partner in Tel Aviv that he wanted the end of the war in Gaza, but also said not to trust the fire in Gaza on his first day in office. “I have no guarantees that peace will be maintained,” Trump said Monday from the Oval Office, one day before his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister. It is believed that Netanyahu can try to convince Trump of the need to extend the first phase of the high fire agreement, beyond six weeks agreed, after which Israel should withdraw his Gaza troops.

This Monday, negotiations should have begun for the next phase of the agreement, but indirect meetings between Israel and Hamás have not yet started in Doha to define the details of the second stage. Netanyahu canceled at the last minute the sending of his delegation to Qatar Until after his trip to Washington, which will last more than expected, until Saturday, February 8. Witkoff has said that he will meet Thursday in Florida with Qatari Foreign Minister and Foreign Minister, Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Than, who has been the main mediator between the two parties.

Regarding the vision of the future of Gaza, the American and the Israeli agree to want to see the empty strip. Recently, Trump suggested the idea of ​​”cleaning it.” “We should simply clean all this,” said Donald Trump at the end of January. “Almost everything is demolished, and people are dying there, so I would prefer to get involved with some of the Arab nations and build homes elsewhere where I think they could live in peace for once,” added the US president, who pointed out To Egypt and Jordan as possible host countries. Both Arab neighbors of Israel – and who signed the first peace treaties with the Hebrew State – have rejected that possibility, which has been denounced as a call to ethnic cleaning and forced displacement of about two million Gazati.

At this Tuesday’s meeting in Washington, both leaders are expected to talk about Iran and how to avoid being done with nuclear weapons, being the Ayatolás regime one of the greatest obsessions of the two. They will also address the sending of more American weapons to Israel (it is one of the few exceptions to freezing foreign aid to everyone by Trump). Trump already gave orders to resume the sending of 1,800 MK-84 bombs, which weigh around a ton and whose use suspended Biden due to the damage they could cause to the Gazatí civilian population.

Before their meeting in the US capital, there have been demonstrations and acts organized by the families of the hostages that remain in Gaza to demand Trump and Netanyahu to continue with the high -fire agreement, so that the Palestinian militiamen leave in Freedom to all the kidnapped on October 7, 2023 (there are still tens after 13 have been released in the past two weeks).

Netanyahu has been able to travel to Washington without fear of being arrested in application of the arrest warrant for war and against humanity issued last November by the International Criminal Court (CPI) of The Hague, whose Washington jurisdiction does not recognize and whose decision He has strongly condemned.

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