Let your rebate dollars "wing their flight" to Gaza's Aid

Dear friends: 

For people in Ontario, Premier Ford has provided an opportunity to contribute to the humanitarian relief and protection that United Nations Relief and Works Agency has provided for decades.   Efforts to discredit the Agency have failed the evidence test, hence the State of Israel's attempt to outlaw UNRWA's life-saving work in Israeli-controlled areas.   

Below is an invitation to consider, if able, the possibility of donating all or part of this "windfall" rebate to respond to the boundless needs generated by Israel's genocidal warfare.   Saving lives precedes even the urgent quest for truth, justice and peace.   Here is a way to be a "first responder" to Palestinians' suffering and distress.    See also a UN Security Council video re Israel's attempt: 

 https://aje.io/hxdg40

Harry Oussoren

Ottawa

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Good day everyone, 

Members of the Focus on Palestine team are sending this special request, to consider and to follow through as you are able. 

With thanks,

Sandra Ballantyne

 In the coming days, Premier Doug Ford will be sending each Ontarian a $200 pre-election rebate that in total will cost the provincial treasury three billion dollars, a sum that could have been usefully directed to housing, health, or other areas of need.

If your financial situation allows, the Focus on Palestine group of First United Church Ottawa is appealing to you to be compassionate, think globally, and donate your $200 where it is urgently needed:  to UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East. 

UNRWA provides essential food aid, employment, healthcare and education to more than six million Palestinian refugees, two million of whom have been devastated by the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

UNRWA, and the very existence of Palestinians as a nation are the target of intense delegitimization and smear campaigns by the government of Israel, the United States and by many of those who believed the baseless Israeli accusations and withdrew support from UNRWA last year. While Israel is ending its agreements with UNRWA, this is expected to only affect the West Bank and Jerusalem. UNWRA will continue to respond to the immense, urgent need for humanitarian aid in Gaza.

This week when asked by Al-Jazeera “what are your most urgent needs?” the Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza replied with one word “EVERYTHING.”

Let’s do the right thing and give them something. All it takes is four simple steps:

1-  Visit UNRWA.org

2-  Learn about what UNRWA does,

3-  Donate Doug Ford’s $200 rebate to the Gaza Emergency Appeal, and

4.  Share this request with your network. 

 Blessings!