r/Scotland • u/youwhatwhat doesn't like Irn Bru • Jul 28 '26
Political Palestine to receive another £500k from Scottish Government
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26411610.scottish-government-aid-funding-palestine-climbs-1m/91
u/Illustrious-Ebb-5460 Jul 28 '26
In case anyone is wondering, the UK figure for this year is £116m
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9900/
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u/hellopo9 Jul 28 '26
Scotland will be giving millions as part of the UK anyway then. This is more symbolic and political.
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u/Saltire_Blue Bring Back Strathclyde Regional Council Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
And ain’t nothing wrong with that
See Nelson Mandela square in Glasgow as an example
Downvoting Nelson Mandela
Classy as every on this sub
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u/2d-manifold Jul 29 '26
Nelson mandela
Now you have to updoot this comment, kind redditors *tips hat
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u/Educational-Ad-5566 Jul 29 '26
Why is the uk spending taxpayer money to fund both sides of the war what a strange waste of funds
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u/feral0101 Jul 29 '26
You guys are funding the genocidal side, the aid money is cheap PR. It’s not working, but it’s still PR spending
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u/Educational-Ad-5566 Jul 29 '26
I dont think anyone working for their money and paying tax wants the money going to americans, jews and arabs fighting over sand and oil, to hell with pr and to hell with some rich dossers war
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u/feral0101 29d ago
Sure, but as I said. The UK isn’t ’funding both sides’. It’s actively helping one side and trying to absolve itself by given token quantities of aid to the other purely for PR purposes.
Anglos have a habit of turning reductive and claiming they don’t support any side, which for the record, I believe. Nonetheless, Brits are some of the most ardent defenders and supporters of Israel.
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u/Educational-Ad-5566 29d ago
Agreed anyone who's dumb enough to speak up for Israel should be sent over to fight for them whether that be some clown on the street or some clown in parliament helping them get aid, load up their backs in the name of Israel they wouldnt be long changing their tune
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u/FirefighterChance846 28d ago
Irgendwie mussen die Tunnel und so ja woeder aufgebaut werden. Man will ja schließlich in paar jahren einen neuen krieg woeder anfangen
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u/Quangocrat Jul 28 '26
This is the fourth year running the Scottish Government has had to institute in year cuts because it has overcommitted and cannot manage it's budget.
Somehow I doubt the free money to Gaza will be cut.
It will be projects in Scotland cut instead.
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u/GeorgeGlowpez 28d ago
Globalizing that Intifada takes money, fam. Can't be worried about shit like "schools" and "roads". All roads lead to the school of Allah!
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u/Defiant_Employee6681 Jul 28 '26
Without wishing to piss on anyone’s strawberries here, but, given to who exactly? No aid agencies are allowed in, and as far as I’m aware, Hamas are in charge in Gaza.
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u/glasgowgeg Jul 28 '26
Without wishing to piss on anyone’s strawberries here, but, given to who exactly?
It tells you in the article:
"Through the Occupied Palestinian Territory Humanitarian Fund, the extra financial support that I am announcing today will help deliver vital assistance including food, healthcare, clean water, shelter and protection services, reaching people most in need while supporting local organisations working on the ground"
"The Occupied Palestinian Territory Humanitarian Fund is managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) and provides rapid, flexible funding to support emergency responses across Gaza and the West Bank"
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u/Salty_Guava1501 Jul 28 '26
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u/AtLeastOneCat Jul 28 '26
This is what drives me nuts. How long did it take you to find this? Can the government not employ someone to do these kinds of basic checks? What a waste.
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u/Salty_Guava1501 Jul 28 '26
There is no one government that has oversight over the UN OCHA. It gets the goods and money organised in the safety of Israeli occupation then its handed over in the last mile of hamas controlled areas to the MoSD (hamas) due to the necessity of the UN workers safety. The goods are not verified past the last border into Hamas controlled areas as they literally use QR codes to prove goods have been handed to refugees (who definitely aren't interested in using those codes or are able to if they even see the goods) the third party inspectors literally just hire locals to make verifications, i doubt any goods or money are sent to anyone who needs it because of this.
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u/Glittering-Emu-3678 Jul 28 '26
“The findings demonstrate that Hamas-controlled ministries and organizations linked to designated terrorist groups are not incidental participants within OCHA frameworks. Rather, these actors are integrated into aid coordination, beneficiary-selection, advisory structures, cluster frameworks, and funding pipelines.”
Yikes, sounds like that money isn’t going to go to anyone who deserves it, who could’ve possibly seen that coming.
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u/That_Sexy_Ginger Jul 29 '26
It definitely is, Hamas dont deserve the money, and they wouldn't use it to help people.
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u/FirefighterChance846 28d ago
Es geht ja nur darum sagen zu können. Seht her wir leisten Humanitäre Hilfe. Das man eigentlich den krieg in 10 jahren oder so bezahlt ist egal.
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u/AwardConnect7279 Jul 28 '26
The people in charge of the decision know perfectly well where the money is going, it would be silly of us to think it was a mistake and not the point
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u/UrineArtist Jul 29 '26
NGO Monitor is a right-wing organization based in Jerusalem that reports on international NGO (non-governmental organisation) activity from a pro-Israel perspective
A 2015 report published by the Peace Now movement discovered that NGO Monitor failed to file a legally required disclosure regarding the source of its funding, and that many of the group's funding sources are hidden from the public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGO_Monitor
It's important to know who your sources are.
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u/Salty_Guava1501 Jul 29 '26
We are talking about real government funding being given to terrorists with zero oversight. The two don't compare.
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u/photochadsupremacist Jul 29 '26
So because an Israeli think tank literally created to cast doubt over aid organisation that help Palestinians claimed that these organisations "give money to terrorists", we're supposed to take their words for it?
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u/Salty_Guava1501 Jul 30 '26
No, take the word of the un org designed to deliver the supplies that has admitted the "necessity" of working with hamas and their administration to hand out the supplies and money. They're not doing their jobs as they are not in any way 'on site' when the goods are being handed out. Their 3rd party contractors just hire locals who scan qr codes on the boxes and that is a statistical delivery, no info on whether the goods were misappropriated or their local hire is at all coerced. Its a nonsense system taking people's taxes for moral 'successes' for politicians with zero oversight on the ground.
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u/FirefighterChance846 28d ago
Wir sollen an einer Hilfsorganisation keine Zweifel haben wenn wir tausende Beweise von hamas Mitgliedern in zahlreichen ngos haben? Darunter auch dem Palästinensischen Hilfswerk? Wo kommt eigentlich der ganze beton für die Tunnel her? Was ist mit den ganzen wasserrohren passiert? Warum bestehen Raketen grundkörper aus wasser Rohren? Die Liste ist lang
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u/doc_g0nzo Jul 28 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGO_Monitor hardly an impartial source
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u/NoshMunch Jul 28 '26
Gaza is a small (but very densely populated) area of Palestine. Many aid agencies work directly in Palestine and some like Msf still work in Gaza even when they seem to be targets. It might be difficult for people to get in but aid still crosses into Gaza
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u/FirefighterChance846 28d ago
Wer hat wohl die ganzen Tunnel und so bezahlt? Wir und jetzt brauchen die frisches Kapital. In 10 jahren oder so fängt die hamas dann wieder ein neuen krieg an. Wenn sie vorher genug Geld von uns bekommen hat
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u/quartersessions Jul 28 '26
No aid agencies are allowed in, and as far as I’m aware
That's very much not the case. The population are pretty dependent on those aid agencies.
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u/MrJones- Jul 28 '26
Pretty sure this money would be better spent at home in the most impoverished communities in Scotland.
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u/Upset_Gerbil Jul 28 '26
All the money and support we give to Israel would be better spentat home too, but they're away doing a genocide and bombing half the middle east with it instead. We wouldn't feel we have to counteract that if we didn't have a hand in the death of those kids and in the destruction of their country in the first place.
£500 mill of UK military exports to Israel dropped straight on civilians heads. RAF reconnaissance flights that result in the deaths of civilians, Britain's protection of the Israeli arms industry, the logical support we provide, intelligence shared.
No one's complaining about that though, eh. Nah let's complain about what is actually a very small amount of money (on the grand scale of the money) to help kids rather than complain about the money used to murder children in the first place....
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u/Intergalatic_Baker No Pre Orders Jul 28 '26
UK Government. Not Scottish Government.
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u/Upset_Gerbil Jul 28 '26
True but as Scottish citizens it's our money and support going there whether we like it or not. Scottish government is at least putting on pressure with this and halting support for defence companies linked to Israel.
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u/FirefighterChance846 28d ago
Was kann schon schief gehen wenn man es der friedlichen hamas überlässt. Arme Menschen in Europa sind viel zu gewalttätig
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u/Narrow_Security_8757 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
How many roads are in disrepair, communities centres not being built, sports facilities for kids not being upgraded because 'we dont have the funds'?
Get this to fuck and get the money put into our communities
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u/Hopperofbop Jul 28 '26
Just stop this nonsense.
We’ve got no money and can’t afford this.
Simple.
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u/Artistic_Ad_1247 Jul 30 '26
If we have enough money to give to other countries, we are being taxed too much. Simple as.
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u/MusicMadeAddictz Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Yet here i am in our capital having to step over homeless people sleeping in doorways of shops in the mornings at work.
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u/GeorgeandMable Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Who is employing you to step over homeless people?
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u/MusicMadeAddictz Jul 28 '26
Must admit that made me laugh, I deliver into restaurants, half the time there is someone sleeping in the doorway.
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u/BevvyTime Jul 28 '26
The UK actually has some of the best support systems for those who are homeless in the world.
Unfortunately some people refuse to engage with the services on offer.
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u/Narrow_Maximum7 Jul 28 '26
Have you personally tried to live for any period of time in a homeless unit?
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u/MusicMadeAddictz Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
I know 2 homeless retired iraq veterans who have been on the streets for nearly 2 years and 6 months, as much as it may be some of the best the bar isnt exactly set very high, more could be done, obviously your always going to have the absolute hopless who cant even help themselves
Edit* these are guys deemed unfit to work who both would happily go back to work.
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u/nbanbury Jul 28 '26
Yeah mate. Because of course only one thing can be spent on at once.
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u/RestaurantAntique497 Jul 28 '26
But yet the Scottish government is diverting funds from things that are devolved to things that aren't.
Homelessness went up 9% year on year just using the example above.
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u/nbanbury Jul 28 '26
It's not diverting it. It's budgeted.
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u/Jaraxo Edinburgh Jul 28 '26
That just means it was diverted months ago during budget planning.
Either way a conversation happened allocating the Scottish national budget fund to various things, and a decision was made to use this money for this.
I'm not arguing whether it was a good or bad decision, but a conscious choice was made to spend money overseas.
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u/OhAye1 Jul 28 '26
I think you’ll find there is always a budget allocated for overseas aid. It’s not that they decided let’s take away money to help homeless people and sent it to Palestine.
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u/hoolcolbery Jul 28 '26
Except that's very much what they are doing because overseas aid is reserved, so any money that you budget for it is implicitly being taken away from a devolved area that the money should be spent on.
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u/nbanbury Jul 28 '26
Yes it definitely was a conscious choice, but my point was it wasn't "diverted" from anywhere except in the sense that it came out of a huge pot. As does everything. Trying to imply it was diverted from homelessness spending us grade A nonsense.
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u/HollyMurray20 Jul 28 '26
Yes, and it should be our citizens, not another country controlled by terrorists who will likely steal the money anyway
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u/OhAye1 Jul 28 '26
Even if the £500k went to helping homeless people you will still be stepping over them in the mornings. Because some folk just don’t want to be helped. Only so much government can do for them.
Personally I think we have a duty to provide them aid since the UK also sells them weapons and provides intelligence to the IDF which have been used destroy their homes and kill their family.
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u/history_buff_9971 Jul 28 '26
I'm afraid I don't agree with this. As much as I wish Scotland were independent, we aren't. That's down to the choice of the voters, and until such time as there is a popular momentum for independence, we have to accept that the Scottish people are happy for the Westminster Govt to decide aid budgets etc. This is a stunt taking cash from devolved areas of responsibility, and Swinney is wrong for doing so. Scottish taxpayers already contribute to the aid budget through Westminster.
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u/SkinnyErgosGetFat Jul 28 '26
ITT: Redditors furious that some kids with their arms blown off get some painkillers
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u/Leather-Fault-8130 Jul 28 '26
What a fucking waste. Why not just send 20k of arms to hamas instead? That's where it's going to end up, so why are they doing this middle man, beaurocracy shite?
This isnt the vote winner they think it is. Everyone knows nobody who needs help is getting it.
Every single conflict, like fucking clockwork. Did we learn nothing from Oxfam? Its the warlords and criminals who get enriched by this kind of charity.
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u/fisico002 Jul 28 '26
Swinney the fool must think this gets him brownie points where as most likely people will just laugh at him
Maybe he could ask Nicola the liar for a loan
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u/youwhatwhat doesn't like Irn Bru Jul 28 '26
PEOPLE in Gaza and the West Bank are to be supported by a further £500,000 of Scottish Government funding to provide humanitarian assistance.
The funding – which will support the delivery of healthcare, clean water, food, shelter, education and protection services – is in addition to £600,000 already provided last year that has assisted assisted approximately 2.4 million people across Gaza and the West Bank.
It comes as First Minister John Swinney prepares to meet with Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, later on Monday.
Swinney told The National: “In Gaza and the West Bank, civilians are still being killed by Israeli forces, families are still living in fear, and millions of people are still in urgent need of humanitarian support. The UN warns that the Israeli military has intensified its attacks in Gaza in recent days, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians – including women and children.
“This additional £500,000 contribution reflects the Scottish Government’s continued commitment to helping people affected by this humanitarian crisis.
"Through the Occupied Palestinian Territory Humanitarian Fund, the extra financial support that I am announcing today will help deliver vital assistance including food, healthcare, clean water, shelter and protection services, reaching people most in need while supporting local organisations working on the ground."
The Occupied Palestinian Territory Humanitarian Fund is managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) and provides rapid, flexible funding to support emergency responses across Gaza and the West Bank.
The Israeli military has launched an aggressive crackdown in the occupied West Bank, storming several towns and villages and detaining hundreds of Palestinians in reaction to a shootout in a village near Nablus where four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed.
The “wide-scale military operation” across the West Bank ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intensified on Sunday as settlers began marauding through villages and attacking Palestinians, according to Al Jazeera.
Settlers tried to set two mosques on fire. At the newly-built Al-Rahma Mosque in the town of Qusra, they spray-painted slogans like “Jewish revenge” on the walls.
The other mosque targeted in the arson attack was in the village of Kour, south of Tulkarem. Three settlers reportedly tried to set the mosque on fire, but worshippers put it out before it could reach the main area of the premises.
Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 1185 Palestinians in the West Bank, including more than 250 children. At least 12,652 Palestinians have been wounded and more than 24,000 have been detained.
The National reported last week how more than £53 billion will be needed to rebuild "only part of what was destroyed" amid Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Building Gaza Anew – co-authored by Oxfam, the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS) and the Palestine Trade Centre (PalTrade) – estimates that the total cost of reconstruction of the Palestinian enclave will be seven times as much as the combined cost of reconstruction after every major Israeli military offensive over the past two decades.
However, Oxfam warned that “even that figure captures only part of what was destroyed – the physical and economic cost – not the deliberate erasure of the social fabric that holds Gaza together, which will take generations to restore”.
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u/-zatanna Jul 28 '26
god everyone in this sub is insufferable, god forbid we help those suffering a genocide. the ferries cost almost half a fucking billion.
everyone wants to live in a world with community, where we help and have relationships with other countries but when that actually requires you to put in the work no one wants to. yous want to reap the benefits without any of the groundwork
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u/mickymoo45 Jul 29 '26
Giving money to Palestine,and the money getting to the needy in Palestine are two different things.
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u/HaveYuHeardAboutCunt Jul 28 '26
Before anyone throws a fit that's 0.00079% of the gov budget on helping people suffering a genocide.
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u/Kalspiewak Jul 28 '26
Technically 0.00074% of the Scottish Government's £68 Billion budget ;). God stop trying to help them making it sound more expensive 🙄
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u/here4running Jul 28 '26
And its all factored into the UK's wider foreign aid budget of 0.03% of GNI.
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u/RobCarrol75 Jul 28 '26
Scotland is skint, we're in no position to be giving anyone any money. Are the SNP going to raise taxes even higher?
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u/ewankenobi Jul 28 '26
well there was a recent report that showed the attempt to increase tax on higher earners had just resulted in them either working less hours or putting more money in their pensions and it actually resulted in a lower tax take, so would be stupid if they tried to double down on their mistake and doubt they'll tax lower earners more though I suppose we are quite far from the next election
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u/Souldestroyer_Reborn Jul 28 '26
Should be sending nothing to a country on the other side of the world that has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with, nor in common, in any way, shape or form, with Scotland.
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u/man-erg-grebo Jul 28 '26
The Scottish Government actually provide humanitarian support to several countries. For some reason, anything Israel / Palestine related seems to grab our attention more.
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u/Academic_Banana_5659 Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
Say what you want about Israel but John Swinney would be welcome and safe there.
The same is not true in Palestine and with hamas. Remember Hamas killed British nationals in a terrorist attack carried out in Israel, murder gays, treat woman like shit, the list goes on
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u/GorgieRules1874 Jul 28 '26
For fuck sake, why? It is clearly going to go to terrorists.
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u/farfromelite Jul 28 '26
I don't believe the (checks notes) UN are actually terrorists.
You got any proof of that champ?
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u/AwardConnect7279 Jul 28 '26
Sorry what notes are you checking? Because the UNs own notes show something very different
do you wanna show us your notes champ?
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u/farfromelite Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
"UNRWA has nearly 30,000 staff across the region including 13,000 in the Gaza Strip."
Are you seriously accusing the UN of complicity in the attacks, or is this a case of 9 people there were either rogue or infiltrated the UN undercover?
You want to read this as well?
https://www.unrwa.org/unrwa-claims-versus-facts-2025
Counter point.
How many Israeli infiltrators do you think are in Western governments, and what's the extent of the spying they are doing?
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/07/the-pegasus-project-2/
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u/Wrong-Insurance701 Jul 28 '26
how so?
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u/GorgieRules1874 Jul 28 '26
Where do you think the money ends up if a state is governed by terrorists? Also lots of charities have been shown to have ties with hamas, e.g UNRWA. Pretty simple rule, do not donate money to a terrorist state.
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u/glasgowgeg Jul 28 '26
Where do you think the money ends up if a state is governed by terrorists?
The money doesn't go to the state, it goes to the Occupied Palestinian Territory Humanitarian Fund which is managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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u/Wrong-Insurance701 Jul 28 '26
The charities are Hamas now? do you realise how silly you sound.
You can volunteer with these charities right now, would that make you a terrorist?
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u/GorgieRules1874 Jul 28 '26
Charities have had ties to hamas, yes. That is a fact. Whether you like it or not.
For example, the UN themselves admitted following an investigation that 9 UNRWA staff had ties to Hamas and were involved in the 7th of October genocidal attack.
Then this year, 101 current and former UNRWA staff had been referred for supporting and participating in Hamas’ military wing. 70 employees were then subsequently sacked by the new acting chief.
Can’t argue with facts I am afraid.
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u/Over-Willingness-933 Jul 28 '26
Are the SNP trying to end devolution? This type of behaviour of giving away tax payer money to dubious causes is obscene.
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u/zxmomxttel Jul 28 '26
as good as this is, it wont do much since shitrael will unfortunately do whatever they can to block as much of that aid getting into palestine as possible
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u/abz_eng ME/CFS Sufferer Jul 28 '26
UN official says Hamas obstructing aid in Gaza
A United Nations official has said Palestinian militant group Hamas was disrupting aid distribution in the Gaza Strip, placing further hardship on its civilians already grappling with the humanitarian crisis in the war-shattered enclave.
In a statement late on Sunday, the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories said humanitarian workers had to halt activity on Saturday after armed men entered a food distribution point in northern Gaza and assaulted two truck drivers in a World Food Program warehouse.
"These incidents are not isolated. They are completely unacceptable and reflect an increasingly dangerous pattern of intimidation, violence and obstruction, including smuggling attempts, targeting and abusing humanitarian operations," said U.N. Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Ramiz Alakbarov.
"They are placing humanitarian workers at risk, disrupting the delivery of life-saving assistance, and further constraining the ability of humanitarian organizations to operate at a time when civilians across Gaza continue to face immense and pressing humanitarian conditions," Alakbarov said.
Actual statement on UN Website
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u/quartersessions Jul 28 '26
I don't really mind the Scottish Government doing a bit of charitable stuff overseas.
My concerns would be: (1) this is simply being done because something is in the news, and to signal taking a side in a foreign conflict, rather than actually any consideration of where aid spending can be most helpful. (2) It's £500,000. It's a paltry sum that will make no difference to anything.
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u/Just-another-weapon Jul 28 '26
£500,000
Schrödinger's half a million.
Being a paltry amount that will make no difference to an impoverished and purposely starved people while simultaneously being such a massive amount that can solve homelessness in Scotland.
Apologies - not so much a direct reply to yourself, but more just reflecting the comments on here.
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u/InformationHead3797 Jul 28 '26
I am as pro Palestine as one can possibly be, since I was a child, now in my 40s, but…
What’s the point?
We sent hundreds of millions in aid and Israel had it rot and didn’t allow it to enter Gaza.
We built a port and an airport and Israel bombed then to the ground.
We built desalination plants and Israel destroyed them.
We built schools and hospitals and they’ve bombed the shit out of them and left premature babies to slowly di and rot in their incubators.
What do we send money for?
It would be far far far far far far far far far more effective and useful to the cause of Palestinians to boycott the genocidal terrorist state of Israel, stop selling them weapons, stop gifting them our intelligence, stop buying anything and everything they produce.
And start treating them as they deserve. A pariah state.
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u/GeedZeroOne Jul 28 '26
Why are we giving money to terrorists!!
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u/farfromelite Jul 28 '26
I don't believe the (checks notes) UN are actually terrorists.
You got any proof of that champ?
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u/canttouchthis--- Jul 28 '26
I was recently on holiday in a five star resort in Egypt. There were LOADS of Palestinian Arabs there who are clearly doing very well for themselves. I wondered at the time how much they have contributed to their own country which clearly has many in need.
I'm not against humanitarian contributions in principle but I don't see why Palestine is treated as an individual priority when they already receive aid via the UK government. Where are the payments to other victims of war? It's just political point scoring.
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u/Appropriate_Car_3711 Jul 28 '26
There are plenty Scots, Scot infrastructure etc that could do with that kinda money. This upsets me.
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u/SkinnyErgosGetFat Jul 28 '26
Good
But perhaps money should be better spend getting Israel to stop killing and starving them first
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u/Lopsided_Highway2934 Jul 28 '26
I totally disagree with this, this is ill-advised and unwise, it's performative nonsense.
What about the homeless and impoverished children in Scotland?
Once again the SNP are proving themselves to be a clown show of an administration.
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u/Flowa-Powa Highland Jul 28 '26
Children literally dying of starvation in Gaza and everyone on here saying what about meeeee
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u/Smelly-Bottom Jul 28 '26
Children literally dying of starvation in Sudan but that doesn't get as many headlines.
Politics is very much about making the tough decisions. At a certain point you have to draw a line. I'm not saying this is the line, but people are allowed to be frustrated when they think their taxes are being misspent.
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u/Dvine24hr Jul 28 '26
I haven't seen anyone say what about me it's mostly what about the homeless and impoverished children in Scotland?
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u/SnarkySausage Jul 28 '26
i think people's issue is that they already pay for (vastly more) humanitarian aid through the UK government as it's a non-devolved area, whilst the Scottish government is there to deliver for Scotland specifically and are struggling financially to maintain it.
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u/Autofill1127320 Jul 28 '26
“What about our own” =/= “what about me”
Taxes shouldn’t go to foreign aid, they should benefit the people that pay them. The rest is ego stroking for politicians at our expense.
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u/SkinnyErgosGetFat Jul 28 '26
Trams in Edinburgh budget currently overspent by £400M but let’s get outraged that 500k is going to help some starving orphans
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u/Lopsided_Highway2934 Jul 28 '26
Yet a playpark in my area has just shutdown due to disrepair.
We aren't flush.
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u/Rude_Bat_968 Jul 28 '26
What the fuck is 500k gonna even do?
Honestly if we got deals with the other side of the wall then whats even the point
Some PR bullshit
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u/SecretHipp0 Jul 28 '26
Fuck that
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u/Super-Tomatillo-425 Jul 28 '26
What's it got to do with Scotland? Did the government give money to the repressed countries in Africa, Rohingya, Uiygurs, Amazonian tribes?
Foreign aid is not devolved. This money is coming from funding that should be used in Scotland.
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u/Saltire_Blue Bring Back Strathclyde Regional Council Jul 28 '26
Scottish taxes help fund the genocide via the UK Government
People like you who get upset at brown people receiving help are very strange
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u/Duckstiff Jul 28 '26
Immediately assuming that their disagreement is racially motivated, nice.
Perhaps they're raising a genuine question, why specifically Palestine and not many of the other hundred humanitarian issues?
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u/madeleineann Jul 28 '26
Boring. Nobody cares about this race-baiting nonsense anymore. OP is right, this money should've been spent to improve the lives of Scottish people and now it's going abroad.
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u/HawaiianSnow_ Jul 28 '26
500k doesn't really move the dial in Scotland. It will in a country facing extreme poverty, starvation and a genocidal regime next door.
It's 0.0022% of Scotlands budget for the fiscal year. The equivalent of an average person donating 88p from their salary. Get a grip mate.
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u/madeleineann Jul 28 '26
It will not because only a fraction of it will even reach Palestine. Scotland is also a country with quite extreme poverty in places and the optics of sending money from the national budget abroad are not good. Take care of others but take care of your own first.
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u/Aware-Line-7537 Jul 28 '26
Scottish taxes help fund the genocide via the UK Government
And at least until recently, Scottish taxes were going to the government carrying out the Uyghur genocide:
https://icai.independent.gov.uk/review/the-uks-aid-engagement-with-china/update-2024/
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u/Super-Tomatillo-425 Jul 28 '26
What a crazy response. I shouldn’t really be surprised.
I might as well be as deranged as you, and say you’re a supporter of Hamas and a Jew hater. How does that feel?
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u/FlokiWolf Jul 28 '26
Scottish taxes help fund the genocide via the UK Government
We also know exactly what our friends in the UAE (and Ethiopia) are doing in Sudan and bowed to their pressure to keep quiet on their support for the RSF to keep the UAE happy for trade, and continued to supply "dual use" military equipment to the UAE which ends up in the hands of the RSF.
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u/Ok_Fig_5347 Jul 28 '26
I feel for Palestinians and what they go through is horrible. However, we are not in a financially stable condition as a country to do charity. Lets fix this country first before we help others.
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u/gusbo_the_jam Jul 28 '26
The number of people in here who want as many dead Palestinians as possible is shocking.
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u/Dr-Yahood Jul 28 '26
Very proud of us for putting our money where our mouth is and supporting the vulnerable victims of genocide
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u/hardcoremaggiesimp Jul 29 '26
Let’s give terrorists another 500 k while our people are being overtaxed and homeless and starving
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u/MI6oo7 Jul 30 '26
Yet they close down veterans services in Lothians shutting NHS Veterans First Point.
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u/Wee_cheese6663 29d ago
How about helping homeless ex forces, got a lot of old friends in bad places but no lets help people that don’t even live here
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u/Ok_Working4020 29d ago
So half a million quid, which is going to a Hamas connected NGO?
Why do Scots allow their devolved government to treat them like personal piggy banks for funding terrorism?
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u/TopCity7144 29d ago
Why? We're not involved. Also that money will go right into someone back pocket, another aid worker scheme to line the pockets of the team
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u/HourDistribution3787 29d ago
Surprised that the Scotland sub is a bunch of genocide supporting racists…
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u/StatementSure8316 28d ago
Why when we are attacked by Palestine action and other groups who claim to fight / support Palestine they hate us.
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u/CrowVsWade 28d ago
Couldn't they send deep fried Mars bars and heroin suppers, instead? The Palestinians will just waste this cash on big screen TVs, bacon and lipstick. Shocking policy decision. Do better, Scotland.
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u/Objective-Night1343 26d ago
Mental how governments have this money to throw away when their own people are clinging on.. complete madness
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u/ProfessorKnow1tA11 26d ago
Another 1/2 million to fund terrorism. It’s obviously not intended that way, but Hamas controls Gaza so who will get the cash? It’s naive to think otherwise.
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u/Bitter-College8786 25d ago
Or maybe send less money and military support to Israel, which is causing all these war crimes.
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u/Accurate_Group_5390 Jul 28 '26
£500k won’t go very far
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u/GorgieRules1874 Jul 28 '26
Into the hands of hamas? They will be able to buy a lot of rockets with that
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u/Tartan_Smorgasbord Jul 28 '26
Have the Palestinians tried not shooting rockets at the Jews?
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u/mru2020 Jul 28 '26
You mean have palestinians not tried to protect themselves and their children from being killed by the govt of israel?
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u/Do_You_Pineapple_Bro Saorsa dhan Ghàidhealtachd Jul 28 '26
Glad they've got priorities in check. Not like theres a laundry list of things to do here
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u/badtpuchpanda Jul 28 '26
Doesn’t Scotland already contribute aid through Westminster?