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If the law is fully implemented and the Israeli government makes it impossible for UNRWA to operate, this will have no effect on Israel’s responsibility to provide for the population,
said UN Secretary-General spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric
It’s a strategic issue that will promote more terrorism and of course all kind of epidemics that are not stopping at the border,
Tamir saidUNRWA has saved Israeli taxpayers billions of dollars over the last 57 years,
said Chris Sidoti, an Australian human rights lawyer who sits on the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian TerritoryMost Israelis don’t really know the facts,
Tamir saidFrom bombing and starvation, to systematically dismantling the health system, to now outlawing the UN agency on which millions of Palestinians depend for their most basic survival needs, Israel is attacking the very foundations of Palestinian survival in Gaza and, increasingly, across the region,
MAP saidThese are the simplest of needs,
Deir Al-Balah resident Ghalia Abd Abu Amra said of the aid she receives
UNRWA was low-hanging fruit for this Israeli government,
said Aaron David Miller, a longtime American policymaker in the Middle East who was a key player in the last serious round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, in 2000.Israelis don’t have a long-term solution.”
Miller is bluntIsrael has always wanted to do this,
he said, speaking from a tent encampment in Deir Al-Balah, in central GazaI did not see December ’49, ... when UNRWA was created
he insistedWhat makes Palestinian refugees different is that they’re not seeking refuge in a third country,
said Diana Buttu, a Palestinian human rights lawyerIt is time UNRWA be dismantled,
he declaredLast week I met with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley,
the Israeli prime minister told his colleaguesThe international community has been doing that by its financial support for UNRWA,
he told journalists in New YorkI can understand why the Palestinians would regard this as a systematic first step to undermine the right of return,
he saidThose panels in the quilts [were] covered with square cloth in agreement with the organizer in the second week of October. Earlier last week, someone removed those covers. Our colleagues covered it twice last week and were planning to do the same today upon learning that it was uncovered again,
the spokesperson said
This appalling display is front and center at the UN, and included art that unambiguously calls for the destruction of the Jewish people and the State of Israel,
Jonathan Harounoff, the international spokesperson for Israel’s Mission to the UN, said in a statementFrom the River to the Sea."
AmongDespite the overwhelming evidence we submitted to the UN that substantiate Hamas’ infiltration of Unrwa, the UN did nothing to rectify the situation,
Danon wrote on X on Monday
Restricting humanitarian access and at the same time dismantling Unrwa will add an additional layer of suffering to already unspeakable suffering. Only political will can put an end to a politically made situation,
Lazzarini said