MEDIA ADVISORY – HIGH-LEVEL EVENT IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE REFUGEES AND UNRWA
14 September 2023
What: Press briefing following the High-Level Ministerial Event convened by Jordan and Sweden in
support of Palestine Refugees and UNRWA
Who: UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of Jordan, H.E. Ayman
Safadi
Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
Time: 15:00 – 15:30 (New York Time)
22:00 – 22:30 (Jerusalem Time)
Venue: Press Room, 2nd floor, General Assembly Building, UN Secretariat New York
Focus: Overview on the outcomes of the High-Level meeting with latest information on the challenges
that Palestine Refugees face, the work of UNRWA and a latest update on the Agency’s
urgent financial needs.
Background Information:
UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The United Nations General Assembly established UNRWA in 1949 with a mandate to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to registered Palestine refugees in the Agency’s area of operations pending a just and lasting solution to their plight.
UNRWA operates in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, The Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Tens of thousands of Palestine refugees who lost their homes and livelihoods due to the 1948 conflict continue to be displaced and in need of support, nearly 75 years on.
UNRWA helps Palestine Refugees achieve their full potential in human development through quality services it provides in education, health care, relief and social services, protection, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance, and emergency assistance. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions.
Member of Knesset Limor Son Har-Melech (Otzma Yehudit) today (Tuesday) appealed to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant demanding to cancel the Israeli approval that would allow the United States to transfer weapons and armored vehicles to the Palestinian Authority.
“Over the last day, I was exposed to a series of publications in the foreign and local media that are outrageous, about a new shipment of armored vehicles and modern and advanced weapons equipped with laser targeting markers, which the US transferred to the Palestinian Authority with the approval of the Israeli government,” she wrote.
She further added: “First, we have to wonder how such a step, which has so many meanings and security implications for all the citizens of the country, is not carried out only after a cabinet decision and all members of the government have been informed. Second, these very days we conclude 30 bloody years of the damned Oslo agreements, in which for the first time, a military force of Judean and Samarian Arabs – nicknamed the ‘Palestinian Authority’ – was officially defeated, not long after we with our own hands gave them thousands of weapons and vehicles.”
“The weapons that were provided for the benefit of ‘maintaining public order in areas controlled by the PA’ were directed at the citizens of the State of Israel, and uniformed police officers in PA vehicles carried out a series of murderous attacks one after another. Only after over 1000 victims were murdered and thousands of bloody and severe attacks did the Israeli public face the fact that the Oslo Accords were a terrible mistake that blew up in all of our faces, in the last few weeks, on the 30th anniversary of the Oslo Accords, the government ministers are being interviewed one by one and rightly condemning the Oslo Accords carried out by the Rabin government at the time.”
“In light of all this, I do not understand how the government with one voice goes against the Oslo agreements, and with the other voice fully embraces Oslo in practice, and in the midst of a wave of murderous terrorism that is sweeping the country and against the background of security alerts for the holiday season, the enemy is awarded modern vehicles and weaponry. Armored personnel carriers and advanced weapons, which will surely be used or directed at us in the coming war, God forbid. This is an act that borders on absolute madness, especially easy when it is carried out by a right-wing government that is aware of the dangers, and warns of them, but it seems that when it comes to it, it does not do enough for stop it.”
“I am hopeful that in your role as Minister of Defense, in which the safety and security of the residents of the State of Israel rests on your shoulders, you will not allow such an action as far as correct publications are concerned. I would like to receive clarifications as soon as possible, and if there is any truth in this matter, I call for the immediate cancellation of the approvals and the stopping of the delivery of the weapons to the PA that may cost the lives of many civilians and IDF soldiers.”
She concluded her words: “If we don’t stop arming the enemy now, we won’t be able to stand by when the day comes and say ‘our hands didn’t shed this blood’.”
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American officials are visiting Saudi Arabia to discuss Palestinian demands regarding a potential deal for the kingdom to normalize relations with Israel. The deal could include Riyadh’s reported proposal to resume its financial payments to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it constrains militants. While Saudi Arabia desires any normalization deal to benefit the Palestinian people, it is financially and morally irresponsible to distribute funds through the corrupt, terrorist-funding PA.
Instead of funneling aid through the PA as part of any normalization agreement, the creation of a new nongovernmental organization would enable the Saudis to support fellow Muslims, develop a responsible organization to tangibly improve Palestinian lives, foster a civil society more amenable to Arab-Israeli normalization outside of the PA’s repression and create a much-needed alternative to the PA’s endemic misgovernance.
Building on the groundbreaking Abraham Accords that one of us helped negotiate during the Trump administration, Saudi normalization with Israel would demonstrate to the world that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a historic figure focused on transforming his society and advancing global peace, as well as provide him an opportunity to chart a better course for Palestinians. Any deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel would mark a massive advancement of the Abraham Accords, creating the political cover for additional Muslim leaders to formalize relations with Israel.
A notable holdout to the goodwill of Saudi-Israel peace could be Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who was elected to a four-year term in 2005 yet still remains in office. Abbas has repeatedly refused or stalled U.S. and Israeli diplomatic proposals.
Yet providing funds to the Palestinian Authority, an organization that continues to reward Palestinian terrorism, would undercut the peaceful message and implications of normalization. Having recognized that the PA’s payments to the families of terrorists encourages violence, Congress passed the Taylor Force Act in 2018, which cuts U.S. funding to the PA until its stops this “pay for slay” program. Since money is fungible, any foreign aid to the PA would effectively incentivize further terror against Israelis. Riyadh should not provide funds to the PA that would exempt the PA from ending its “pay for slay.”
Moreover, and despite the international community having propped up the PA for the past 30 years as the representative of the Palestinian people, the corrupt organization remains a failure that services its leadership with luxuries, like the purchase of a $50 million jet for Abbas in 2018, amid funding cuts.
Considering the strong diplomatic, economic and security relationships that have developed through the Abraham Accords, it is the PA’s intransigence, repression and cronyism that holds back an even deeper and wider peace between Israel and the Arab and Muslim worlds.
Simultaneously, Saudi Arabia has been signaling to its neighbors that it is attaching conditions to its bountiful foreign aid, which has long provided vital financial support to troubled economies throughout the Middle East. Riyadh has sent over $5 billion to Palestinian causes, but, recognizing the PA’s rampant corruption, began decreasing its aid in 2016 and cut it off entirely in 2021. “We used to give direct grants and deposits without strings attached and we are changing that,” Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said in January. “We are working with multilateral institutions to actually say we need to see reforms.”
Having sent billions of dollars in aid to Middle Eastern nations like Egypt and Jordan, Saudi Arabia under MBS’s leadership is increasingly insisting on economic reforms in these countries to ensure better returns on Saudi investment and help bolster key linchpins of regional stability.
The international community should adopt a parallel approach to Palestinian aid. It is past time to stop funding Palestinian aid through an organization like the Palestinian Authority that has no intention of yielding a return on that investment, and whose corruption and misgovernance works directly at cross-purposes with shared U.S., Israeli and Saudi goals of promoting peace, prosperity and stability.
Instead, the United States and Saudi Arabia should create a responsible mechanism for helping the Palestinians — not furthering PA corruption and support for terrorism. Establishing a new aid organization would enable the United States to provide assistance to the Palestinian people without violating the Taylor Force Act. Removing the PA from the aid equation would better ensure that aid reaches the Palestinian people and not PA coffers or as a subsidy for terrorist attacks against Israelis.
As part of the normalization process between Saudi Arabia and Israel, U.S. and Saudi officials should establish a Saudi-led international aid organization that would be independent of the PA’s cronyism and of the United Nations, which has hindered Palestinian progress. A new “Future Investment Fund for the Palestinian People” would not only establish an alternative mechanism for providing the Palestinians with financial support, but also create a political power base that is independent of PA malfeasance and misgovernance.
Normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel provides an opportunity not only to reshape the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East but also to move past the outmoded Palestinian Authority, which has long been an obstacle to peace. In doing so, Saudi-Israel relations would pave the road to the long-sought peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Mike Pompeo is a former U.S. secretary of state. Sander Gerber is the chief executive of Hudson Bay Capital Management, a distinguished fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) and a member of the State Department’s Middle East Partnership for Peace Act (MEPPA) advisory board.
Yet “condemnation” has no effect on Abbas, who galivants around the world, heading an entity, funded by 135 nations without any pretense of transparency,
What Abbas may not know is the PLO leader enjoys no immunity anywhere
I checked.
Abbas has no immunity from criminal prosecution in Israel, theich US, Canada, or the 27 nations of the EU
Anyone– anywhere = can file a police complaint against Abbas because of his criminal incitement and demand that Abbas be denied freedom of movement in their country
The Jewish year may be winding down but Jews and Israel continue to dominate the news one way or another.
Some events from the recent past seem to have sunk into oblivion. Others may have caused some minor ripples but have otherwise elicited only muted responses.
As we prepare to wrap up another year it is important to recall those challenges which have gone unanswered. Putting them in the too-hard basket because dealing with them might have upset too many people is a recipe for disaster. Kicking the can down the road in the hope that someone else might deal with them is a failed strategy.
Politicians love to promise and procrastinate in the hope that the befuddled masses can be beguiled into believing their intentions. While many are fooled, increasing numbers of the long-suffering public can discern “snake oil” salespersons and are not prepared to fall for unfulfilled gestures.
The following is just a random selection of some of the still unresolved challenges which confront us.
There are still many who cannot understand the continuing romance with an entity which promotes jihadist martyrdom and pays murderers and their families for killing Jewish Israelis. Recently an Abbas spokesperson declared that Israel’s elimination of “martyrs” (aka terrorists) is a war crime. Following this patently poisonous assertion one should have expected the White House, State Department, EU, UK Foreign Office and the UN to denounce the sponsors of terror residing in Ramallah. These same defenders of “saint Mahmoud” are quick to condemn Israel for each and every perceived “threat to democracy.”
Unsurprisingly nary a peep has been heard.
Instead, all we can hear are hymns of praise from the international community and Jewish self-loathers for those who supposedly are yearning to establish a fake State based on democratic and human rights values. Instead of an outpouring of outrage from Diaspora Jewish leaders and Israeli politicians all we have is silence or meaningless mumbling.
A report in the Israeli media this week revealed that in a recording of a speech by Abbas he claimed that “Jews were murdered in the Holocaust not because of their “Jewishness” but so that the Nazis could seize their money.”
For good measure, he also asserted that “all the historical evidence and documents show the Palestinian identity of Jerusalem, the Al Aqsa Mosque and all the holy places for Islam and Christianity in Jerusalem.”
His lies and fabrications elicited muted responses from Israeli political leaders and Diaspora Jewish spokespersons.
Why, therefore, should anyone be surprised when the UN and general media give yet another pass to the anointed apostle of peace?
Recently, a group of Democratic Party legislators visited Israel and were shown around various areas of the country. They also had the opportunity to meet and speak with many Israelis. The object of the exercise, no doubt, was to expose them to some realities so that they could better understand the complexities of the problems confronting Israel. Presumably, it is hoped that once cognizant of facts rather than myths these US representatives might return to the USA and enlighten some of their colleagues who are drifting into the far-left anti-Israel camp.
On their return, the Michigan State senator issued an abject apology for having participated in this visit and in the face of furious condemnation from Michigan Muslim groups recanted any sympathy that may have been expressed for the Jewish State.
Once again, American Jewish leadership remained relatively mute in the face of this glaring hypocrisy.
What can only be described as a continuing theatre of the absurd manifested itself in a few other ways as we count down to the end of the year.
One of the contenders for the Republican Party Presidential nomination in 2024, Vivek Ramaswamy, touted as an up-and-coming young politician, found himself caught up in controversy over his remarks about Israel. At first, he advocated ending aid to Israel but after a barrage of scornful criticism from fellow Republicans, he backtracked somewhat. Whether his views were as a result of political naivety or a misstep remains to be seen but a subsequent declaration should ring warning bells not only in Israel but also with other US allies.
He stated that he was against using US military force against Iran. As reported, he declared that “it would be taking part in a war we don’t belong in.” I am sure that the Mullahs in Tehran must be rooting for him to become the nominee in 2024. Faced with a choice between a Democrat President doing his level best to unfreeze billions of Iranian funds and a potential Republican candidate pledged to avoid military action, the regime must be in paradise.
Just imagine what the Taiwanese facing a Chinese invasion and the South Koreans facing a North Korean nuclear attack must be thinking.
Any Israeli with some recollection of recent history will remember the infamous words of Neville Chamberlain as Czechoslovakia was about to be swallowed up by Nazi Germany: “it’s about a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.”
Is history about to be repeated?
The International Atomic Energy Agency issued a report which stated that “it regrets a lack of Iranian co-operation as enriched uranium grows.” This observation, instead of sending shivers down Iranian spines, will induce paroxysms of hilarious laughter.
The mandate for the UN “peacekeeping” force in South Lebanon has been renewed by the Security Council (with China and Russia abstaining). Listening to the subsequent rhetoric, one could imagine that this was a triumph for the enforcement of UN resolutions and the disarmament of Hezbollah terror forces. No such event, of course, will take place and the Iranian-backed terrorists will continue to aim their missiles at Israel and prepare for a conflict which is not that far away.
The stark reality is euphoric diplomatic hallucinations that ignore the effective disarming of those threatening not only Israel but also the independence of Lebanon, will result in mayhem and murder.
Egypt has reportedly asked Israel not to harm Hamas and Jihad leaders. In other words, those fomenting the murder of Israelis should be given immunity and allowed to continue plotting their terror agenda. This is the mad cuckoo world we face at the moment and the absence of a concerted campaign to expose this only lends credence to the hypocrisy which is now the rule.
The Papal blessing of Pope Francis provides proof of how far sanity has been compromised.
In a message to young Russians, he pontificated: “You are the heirs of the great Russia – of the saints, of the Kings, of Peter the Great, Catherine, great imperial Russia, cultivated with so much culture and humanity.”
This declaration may have warmed the hearts of some, but it certainly did the opposite as far as any intelligent Jews are concerned.
The history of Jews in Tsarist and Communist Russia is certainly not one of humanity and religious tolerance. It is a bloody trail of pogroms and persecution at the hands of rulers and with the sanction of Church authorities. Blood libels and conspiracies are the legacy of those periods in Russian history.
It’s a pity that political correctness has yet again produced a shameful silence.
Since 1987, the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research Ltd., located in Jerusalem and headed by David Bedein, has stood at the forefront of advocacy for UNRWA (United Nations Refugee Works Agency) policy change, addressing alleged misuse of donor funds and breaches of the UNRWA mandate “to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to registered Palestine refugees pending a just and lasting solution to their plight.”
Bedein, an MSW, has examined the Palestinian Authority school system since the first day that the PA began to issue its own textbooks (August 1, 2000), the time UNRWA adopted the PA school curriculum.
Having met with and received personal authorization from Yasser Arafat (PLO Chairman 1969-2004) to review all textbooks issued by the Palestinian Authority (used by UNRWA schools in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and Gaza), Bedein engaged a journalist and scholar of Arabic education, Dr. Arnon Groiss, to review more 1,000 schoolbooks issued by the PA and used by UNRWA.
Groiss, who is fluent in Arabic, holds a PhD in Islamic Studies and served as deputy director of the Arabic division of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.
The following is a partial list of serious violations of the UNRWA mandate to help the 6.7 million descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war now registered with UNRWA:
• Terror advocacy conveyed by new Palestinian Authority textbooks used by UNRWA
• Hamas infiltration into the UNRWA schools and youth clubs
• Prolonged manipulation of Arabs to dwell as “refugees for perpetuity” in 59 UNRWA squalor camps, as pawns in the unresolved Arab Israel war
• UNRWA works with the PA to “erase” Israel from their maps, rather than using standard UN maps, which depict all UN members in good standing, including Israel
• Deliberate financial misrepresentations to international donors
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I.) Current UNRWA Policy: Part of the Problem, Not Part of the Solution UNRWA continually requests more and more funds, with a budget that has swelled to $1.6 billion in less than three years.
Established with a “temporary” mandate by the UN General Assembly in 1949, UNRWA has done nothing to help Arab refugees and their families move on with their lives or seek a better future for themselves or their families.
Instead, UNRWA enshrines the “right of return by force of arms,” which envisions the elimination of Israel by flooding it with millions of Arab refugees.
II.) No UNRWA Support for a Two-State Solution Our review of more than 1,000 official textbooks of the PA, used by UNRWA, finds that both UNRWA and the PA reject the two-state solution because UNRWA and PA education are based on three fundamentals:
1. De-legitimization of Israel’s existence and the Jews’ very presence in the country, which includes denial of their history and the existence of any Jewish holy places there.
2. Demonization of both Israel and Jews, also religiously – with implications regarding the Jews’ image in the eyes of children who hail from a traditional Arab society.
3. The absence of a call for peace with Israel. Instead, there is a call for a violent struggle for the liberation of the whole country, including pre-1967 Israel. This struggle is given a religious color and terror is made an integral part thereof, encouraging the murder of Jews.
III.) De-Legitimization
1. Israel’s Jewish citizens are considered foreign colonialists. (Social Studies, Grade 8, Part 2 [2020], p. 34)
2. The country’s Jewish history is denied, including the existence of archaeological items proving it: “The conqueror has built for himself an artificial entity that derives its identity and the legitimacy of its existence from tales, legends and fantasies and has tried in various ways and means to create live material evidence for these legends, or archaeological architectural proofs that would determine their truth and authenticity, but in vain.” (Arabic Language – Academic Path, Grade 10, Part 2 [2020], p. 68)
3. Existence of Jewish holy places in the country is denied, including the Western Wall in Jerusalem. In Arabic: “Al-Buraq Wall:” “The Al-Buraq Wall has been named after Al-Buraq [the divine beast] that carried the Messenger [of God, i.e., Muhammad] during the Nocturnal Journey [from Mecca to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, according to Islamic belief] and the Ascension [to Heaven]. The AlBuraq Wall is part of the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Aqsa Mosque, including the wall, is Palestinian land and an exclusive right of the Muslims.” (Islamic Education, Grade 5, Part 1 [2020] p. 63)
4. Having been considered foreign settlers, Jews in the country are not counted as legitimate inhabitants and the cities they built there, including Tel Aviv, are absent from maps in the texts used in PA schools. The PA school map, titled “Map of Palestine”, does not show any Jewish city, except the southern city of Eilat, which appears under its Arabic name, a desolate place where it was later built up – “Umm al-Rashrash”. (Social Studies, Grade 6, Part 1 [2020], p. 6)
5. The Jews’ historical and religious ties to Jerusalem are ignored. According to the PA textbooks, Jerusalem was built by the Palestinians’ Arab ancestors (i.e., the
“Arabized” Canaanites and Jebusites) and is holy to Muslims and Christians alone. Jews are not mentioned in this context: “Jerusalem is an Arab city built by our Arab ancestors thousands of years ago. Jerusalem is holy only to Muslims and Christians.” (National and Social Upbringing, Grade 3, Part 1 (2020) p. 29)
6. A short historical description of the city’s names features a huge gap of 1,000 years between the Jebusites and the Romans, that is, the Jewish historical period. The name “Jerusalem” with its various forms that is used in hundreds of languages around the world is completely absent: “The city of Jerusalem was known as ‘Jebus’ after the Arab Jebusites who built it 5,000 years ago. When the Romans occupied it, they named it ‘Aelia’. Later on, it came to be known as ‘AlQuds’ or ‘Bayt al-Maqdis’, after the Muslims had conquered it at the hands of
Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab in 637 CE…”(Geography and Modern and Contemporary History of Palestine, Grade 10, Part 1 (2020) p. 43)
7. The woman commander of an attack on an Israeli civilian bus in 1978, which ended in the murder of over 30 Israeli civilians – men, women and children, transforms into a role-model for Palestinian children in a text introduced in the UNRWA schools in 2017 and republished each year. https://israelbehindthenews.com/2021/11/30/dalal-al-mughrabi-a-murderous-terroristas-a-role-model-in-palestinian-authority-schoolbooks-used-by-unrwa-2/
IV.) US Middle East Policy Recommendations to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and its Middle East Subcommittee
• Cancel the new UNRWA curriculum, which incorporates jihad, martyrdom and “right of return by force of arms” in UN schools that are supposed to promote the UN principle of “Peace Starts Here.”
• Cease paramilitary training for UNRWA students contiguous to UNRWA schools. UNRWA must demonstrate its commitment to UN principles for “peace education.”
• Insist that UNRWA dismiss employees affiliated with terror-affiliated groups, in accordance with laws on the books in Western nations, which prohibit the provision of aid to any agency that employs members of terror groups.
• Demand that UNRWA cancel connections with the informal UNRWA “youth ambassador” Mohammad Assaf who travels the world encouraging violence.
• Ask for a thorough audit of funds that flow to UNRWA via cash and bank transfer. This would address widespread documented reports of wasted resources, duplicity of services and flow of cash, especially the terror groups that have controlled UNRWA operations in Gaza since 2007.
• Introduce UNHCR standards to UNRWA to advance the resettlement of Arab refugees. UNRWA policy is that refugee resettlement would interfere with the “right of return” to Arab villages that existed before 1948. While UN rules will not allow UNHCR to replace UNRWA, nothing stops UNRWA from adopting the constructive working principles of UNHCR.
Note: Mr. Bedein had asked the US State Department if it would demand a change in the PA or curriculum, to advocate a two-state solution. To date, no response to this query.
UNRWA schools in Jenin and in Gaza have become virtual arsenals, leading us to ask the US State Department whether the US will ask for a weapons and ammunition inspection of UNRWA facilities. To date, no response to this query.
V.) Responding to Request for Information on UNRWA to the British Parliament To: A Senior Parliamentary Assistant at The House of Lords SW1A 0PW Parliament
Pleased to respond to your request to raise UNRWA policy issues at the UK Parliament.
Context: The UK is a major donor to UNRWA and can influence UNRWA policy.
The following questions challenged UK lawmakers to ask UNRWA to act in accordance with the values of the United Nations.
1. In 2017, UNRWA introduced a textbook which features a woman named Dalal el Mugrabi – whose terror squad commandeered a civilian bus and murdered more than 30 passengers, including 13 children – as a role model for UNRWA pupils.
In the new UNRWA text, Dalal is portrayed in full terror garb, followed by a lesson plan which presents her life story for adulation and emulation. Why does the UK not ask for the removal of this and other such texts taught at United Nations schools?
2. UNRWA contracts for exclusive use of Palestinian Authority schoolbooks in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and Gaza. Like all UN agencies, UNRWA administers its schools under the UN slogan of “Peace Begins Here.” PA education, however, runs schools based on the ideology of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which is “the conquest of Palestine by force of arms.” In
another new text, UNRWA pupils are taught to sing a song which encourages children to “exterminate the usurpers” after the Arabs return to control of Palestine Why does the UK not ask UNRWA to instead offer a curriculum based on peace and reconciliation?
3. El Kutla youth clubs in UNRWA schools, affiliated with Hamas, inspire pupils with the mantra of the armed struggle from a young age.
https://israelbehindthenews.com/2022/02/11/new-research-hamas-operation-ofunrwa-youth-clubs-in-unrwa-schools/
Why does the UK not ask UNRWA to demand that youth clubs on UNRWA premises cease and desist from violent incitement?
https://israelbehindthenews.com/2022/03/08/hamas-islamic-bloc-in-unrwa-schools-inthe-gaza-strip-activities-modus-operandi/
4. UNRWA now presents 125 new maps in their schools with Arab names that delete the Jewish names of all Jewish communities. Meanwhile, Israel is wiped off the UNRWA maps. Since Israel is a member state of the United Nations, why does the UK not insist that Israel be included on UNRWA maps?
https://israelbehindthenews.com/2022/09/24/revealing-maps-the-palestinian-vision-astaught-in-unrwa-schools/
5. UNRWA schools in Jenin and in Gaza have become virtual arsenals. Why does the UK not ask for a weapons and ammunition inspection of UNRWA facilities?
6. At this point in time, UNRWA holds out the “right of return” as the only option for the future of 6.7 million descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 War who dwell as “refugees for perpetuity” in the indignity of 59 “temporary” refugee camps since 1949. However, the UNHCR, which protects the rights of refugees all over the world, has enforced the most important human right for all refugees to be settled in permanent homes, with dignity. Why, then does the UK not endorse a plan for Arab refugees for the voluntary resettlement of UNRWA residents who wish to leave the squalid conditions of UNRWA refugee camps?
7. In light of the continued incitement at UNRWA facilities, the US and UNRWA signed an accord in July 2021 that requires UNRWA to eradicate incitement from its educational system as a condition for receiving funds. When UNRWA refused to make such changes in the UNRWA curriculum, the US placed funds for UNRWA education in escrow. Will the UK also condition funds for UK education until UNRWA makes the relevant changes in its schools?
8. Hamas, defined by the UN as an illegal terrorist group, controls UNRWA facilities in Gaza. Since the UK defines Hamas as a terrorist group, why does the UK not demand the removal of Hamas from UNRWA?
9. Following murders committed by thirteen- and fourteen-year-old children from UNRWA, along with the widespread militarization of Palestinian Arab youth, will the UK seek to stem the violent indoctrination of UNRWA youth, which violates the UN statute on the rights of the child? https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/app/uploads/2023/02/E_039_23.pdf
10. UNRWA schools are often adorned with murals of “martyrs” who died while killing Jews. Will the UK ask UNRWA to remove these murals? https://israelbehindthenews.com/wpcontent/uploads/2021/11/UNWRA-OCT-21-02.jpg
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