Benjamin Dousa KU reports about indented support for Gaza

The frustration is great on Sida after the management stopped the authority’s humanitarian department’s proposal to pay SEK 30 million to the UN agency UNRWA within a couple of weeks.

According to the officials’ investigation, Unrwa is the actor who can provide the most effective and best help in the war -torn Gaza. Therefore, one wants to quickly provide humanitarian aid to the organization, Has DN previously told about.

But Sida’s highest management says no. The background is that the government stopped all funding for the UN agency in December 2024 with reference to the fact that Israel banned it to operate in the area. Instead, the government provides support to other aid players.

– – We have made an overall assessment that, for the time being, we will not support UNRWA’s operations with additional financing. And it is based on the authority’s interpretation of the government’s authority instruction and the government’s decision to terminate the Swedish core support to the UN body, has Sida’s Director General Jakob Granite told DN.

Now the Social Democrats are choosing To report KU-Minister Benjamin Dousa.

– Sida doesn’t even dare to respond to an emergency aid appell to get more money for the population in Gaza, with reference to government policy. It raises questions about the minister’s service. Therefore, it is important that the Constitutional Committee examines him and the governance of Sida, says MP Laila Naraghi (S).

Humanitarian assistance should not take into account politics but be distributed based on need.

– After what emerges in DN’s review, SIDA has taken into account other than just needs because of the government’s policy, says Laila Naraghi.

She also reacts That Dousa said in SVT that Sweden is one of the countries that wants more help to reach Gaza – while helping UNRWA is stopped.

– I hope this will help the government realize that they have to change their politics and increase support for the children and other civilian population in Gaza, she says.

Development Minister Benjamin Dousa writes in a comment on DN that he has to dialogue with Sweden’s humanitarian partners on site in Gaza:

« I work day and night for more families in Gaza to get to know Swedish assistance. We would have liked to have collaborated with the Social Democrats to put more pressure on Israel. It is not through party political play that more children in Gaza get help, that is because we act strongly and in common. Now it is up to KU to review the case. »

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