Dozens of Israeli settlers and rightwing activists have protested by again blocking the entrances of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) office in Jerusalem and calling for the body’s closure.

Last week, Israel announced it would no longer approve Unrwa food convoys to the north of Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest. The decision came after the agency was accused by the government of collaborating with Hamas in Gaza, with its staff facing a systematic campaign of obstruction and harassment by the Israeli military and authorities, as revealed in internal UN documents seen by the Guardian.

On Wednesday, a group of settlers, activists, and members of the rightwing extra-parliamentary political group Im Tirtzu staged a protest for the third week in a row, fixing posters to the building and demanding that the agency be abolished.

“Unrwa needs to be disbanded,” said Aynat Libman, a 52-year-old Israeli settler from Efrat. “Israel doesn’t need to provide space to Unrwa in our capital. They support terror, teach children from a very young age to be terrorists, provide support to Hamas, and supply Hamas. They are terrorists.”

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    I’ll just say: Progressive Israelis hate settlers. The majority (as a rule everyone who voted for Netanyahu’s coalition) has no issue with them or outright supports them.

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      8 months ago

      the current coalition got 49.5% of the votes.
      the coalition is also made up of non-zionist ultra-orthodox.

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          8 months ago

          not necessarily.
          there are quite a bit of druze who vote likud, and a surprising amount of muslim israeli arabs and bedouins who vote for shas.
          i haven’t seen an article that mentions how much of a percentage they are out of all likud or shas voters though. but in some towns and villages they are as much as 30%+

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            and a surprising amount of muslim israeli arabs and bedouins who vote for shas.

            Okay what? Why? Also I don’t know Shas but I’m assuming it’s in Netanyahu’s coalition?

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              from what i understood, the laws they pass to help their voters tend to also resonate with muslim arabs and bedouins.

              and yes. it’s one of the ultra-orthodox parties in the coalition. just that this one is zionist and aims to mainly represent sephardic/mizrahi jews.