Every other group of refugees comes under the same UN refugee agency, the UNHCR. Except for Palestinians, they’re the sole exception with the notoriously corrupt UNRWA. The UNHCR’s mission is to ensure that refugees can find asylum and in general a safe place to live, having fled from violence. The UNRWA does pretty much the opposite, insisting that Palestinians remain where they are, in the circumstances they suffer under, for political value.
Per the article, UNRWA already have couple of critical report against them so once Israel find alternative relief agency then it will be matter of time UNRWA will be kicked out of Gaza.
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Not surprised based on longstanding accusations of UNRWA schools radicalizing Gazan children with Islamist rhetoric glorifying martyrdom; also the high number of arms including grenades and rocket launchers found stored by Hamas in UNRWA schools shows a blatant disregard for civilian targets (making them a viable military target according to international law.)
>*Teachers and schools at the UN agency that runs education and social services for Palestinians regularly call to murder Jews, and create teaching materials that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism, reveals a new report by two independent research and monitoring groups. The joint report, to be presented today in a meeting at the U.S. Congress as it considers new legislation in the House and the Senate to cut funding for UNRWA, uncovers 47 new cases of incitement by UNRWA staff, in breach of the agency’s stated policies of zero tolerance for racism, discrimination or antisemitism in its schools and educational materials.*
>*a hospital or school may become a legitimate military target if it contributes to specific military operations of the enemy and if its destruction offers a definite military advantage for the attacking side.*
Also worth noting that the USA is UNWRA’s largest donor, which may complicate matters. While they probably regret it now, last year the Biden administration overturned the Trump decision to stop their funding, and instead increased it to record high. (Source: the White House)
>*President Biden will announce an additional $201 million for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to continue delivering critical services to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. UNRWA’s comprehensive services remain a lifeline to millions of vulnerable Palestinians – consistent with its mandate to provide assistance and protection to Palestinian refugees pending a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. … This contribution cements the United States’ status as UNRWA’s largest donor. These new funds bring the total United States assistance to UNRWA during the Biden Administration to more than $618 million.*
You might ask how come 700k refugees from a war that happened 75 years ago amount to 5.4M today.
UNRWA does 2 things that are unique to Palestinian refugees over UNHCR refugees, 1. refugee status is passed to decendants, 2. refugee status is not lost when Palestinians are resettled in other countries. Essentially, a palestinian person living in the US who adopts a child can have his child registered as a Palestinian refugee.
Good. It should be replaced by the UNHCR.
unrwa should be dismantled and prosecuted
about damn time
UNRWA is hamas
Suggestion to UNRWA – maybe don’t have your teacher holding a hostage and starving them for 50+ days.
Israel wants a lot of things except ends the occupation
Weird that Iran doesn’t want the UN to help because the us would be the help againast the un human rights council.
Wouldn’t a better title say that they want a replacement for UNRWA? Saying it like this suggests they just want aid out of Gaza….
The whole UNWRA argument is kinda beside the point…
When the state of Israel was created it was given a certain amount of territory to create the State of Israel…
I’m perfectly fine with an Israeli state existing within that defined territory…
It wasn’t exactly good enough for them, now was it?
The Palestinians were never given the same courtesy, nor was there ever a Palestinian State created at the outset in parallel, although it was their lands that were annexed.
If both states would have been created at the outset, we would have seen a lot less strife in these last decades…
A failure of the West, the Brits and the UN… and this is about as mildly as I can put it.
They should bomb them by accident until they leave.
UNRWA and UN should be held liable for supporting hamas. The evidence is plenty at this point.
Agreed they should go.
The US shouldn’t send another dime to them as well.
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Every other group of refugees comes under the same UN refugee agency, the UNHCR. Except for Palestinians, they’re the sole exception with the notoriously corrupt UNRWA. The UNHCR’s mission is to ensure that refugees can find asylum and in general a safe place to live, having fled from violence. The UNRWA does pretty much the opposite, insisting that Palestinians remain where they are, in the circumstances they suffer under, for political value.
Per the article, UNRWA already have couple of critical report against them so once Israel find alternative relief agency then it will be matter of time UNRWA will be kicked out of Gaza.
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Not surprised based on longstanding accusations of UNRWA schools radicalizing Gazan children with Islamist rhetoric glorifying martyrdom; also the high number of arms including grenades and rocket launchers found stored by Hamas in UNRWA schools shows a blatant disregard for civilian targets (making them a viable military target according to international law.)
>*Teachers and schools at the UN agency that runs education and social services for Palestinians regularly call to murder Jews, and create teaching materials that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism, reveals a new report by two independent research and monitoring groups. The joint report, to be presented today in a meeting at the U.S. Congress as it considers new legislation in the House and the Senate to cut funding for UNRWA, uncovers 47 new cases of incitement by UNRWA staff, in breach of the agency’s stated policies of zero tolerance for racism, discrimination or antisemitism in its schools and educational materials.*
https://unwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-Report-UNRWA.pdf
>*a hospital or school may become a legitimate military target if it contributes to specific military operations of the enemy and if its destruction offers a definite military advantage for the attacking side.*
https://www.icrc.org/en/document/ihl-rules-of-war-faq-geneva-conventions
Also worth noting that the USA is UNWRA’s largest donor, which may complicate matters. While they probably regret it now, last year the Biden administration overturned the Trump decision to stop their funding, and instead increased it to record high. (Source: the White House)
>*President Biden will announce an additional $201 million for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to continue delivering critical services to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. UNRWA’s comprehensive services remain a lifeline to millions of vulnerable Palestinians – consistent with its mandate to provide assistance and protection to Palestinian refugees pending a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. … This contribution cements the United States’ status as UNRWA’s largest donor. These new funds bring the total United States assistance to UNRWA during the Biden Administration to more than $618 million.*
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/14/fact-sheet-the-united-states-palestinian-relationship/
Everyone should at this point
It’s time to defund UNRWA aswell.
You might ask how come 700k refugees from a war that happened 75 years ago amount to 5.4M today.
UNRWA does 2 things that are unique to Palestinian refugees over UNHCR refugees, 1. refugee status is passed to decendants, 2. refugee status is not lost when Palestinians are resettled in other countries. Essentially, a palestinian person living in the US who adopts a child can have his child registered as a Palestinian refugee.
Good. It should be replaced by the UNHCR.
unrwa should be dismantled and prosecuted
about damn time
UNRWA is hamas
Suggestion to UNRWA – maybe don’t have your teacher holding a hostage and starving them for 50+ days.
Israel wants a lot of things except ends the occupation
Weird that Iran doesn’t want the UN to help because the us would be the help againast the un human rights council.
Wouldn’t a better title say that they want a replacement for UNRWA? Saying it like this suggests they just want aid out of Gaza….
The whole UNWRA argument is kinda beside the point…
When the state of Israel was created it was given a certain amount of territory to create the State of Israel…
I’m perfectly fine with an Israeli state existing within that defined territory…
It wasn’t exactly good enough for them, now was it?
The Palestinians were never given the same courtesy, nor was there ever a Palestinian State created at the outset in parallel, although it was their lands that were annexed.
If both states would have been created at the outset, we would have seen a lot less strife in these last decades…
A failure of the West, the Brits and the UN… and this is about as mildly as I can put it.
They should bomb them by accident until they leave.
UNRWA and UN should be held liable for supporting hamas. The evidence is plenty at this point.
Agreed they should go.
The US shouldn’t send another dime to them as well.
I do too.