Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte

2:00 am

Mr. John Whyte:

These are good questions. There is a complete absence of public order. When I first started working there at the end of November 2023, there was no looting, trucks were not hijacked, and aid was able to enter and be distributed across the Gaza Strip unimpeded, but that changed. Obviously, the blockade and desperation, and the reduction of supplies and starvation, change everything. I guess I do not know. As somebody once said, we are only a couple of meals away from a revolution in any country.

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