UNRWA
 United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East     | |
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 "Perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn’t help peace" (Jared Kushner) | |
| Abbreviation | UNRWA |
| Parent organization | UN |
Created in December 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency which supports more than 5 million registered Palestinian refugees, and their patrilineal descendants, who fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Palestine war as well as those who fled or were expelled during and following the 1967 Six-Day War.[1][2] Originally intended to provide jobs on public works projects and direct relief, today UNRWA provides education, health care, and social services to the population it supports. Aid is provided in five areas of operation: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem; aid for Palestinian refugees outside these five areas is provided by UNHCR.
UNRWA also provided relief to Jewish and Arab Palestine refugees inside the state of Israel following the 1948 conflict until the Israeli government took over responsibility for Jewish refugees in 1952.[3] In the absence of a solution to the Palestine refugee problem, the UN General Assembly has repeatedly renewed UNRWA's mandate, most recently extending it until 30 June 2020.[4] Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States and the US broker for peace talks, has advocated a "sincere effort to disrupt" UNRWA as part of the Trump administration's proposals for the Middle East, since according to Kushner it "perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn’t help peace".[5]
UNRWA is the only UN agency dedicated to helping refugees from a specific region or conflict and is separate from UNHCR.[6] Formed in 1950, UNHCR is the main UN refugee agency, which is responsible for aiding other refugees all over the world. Unlike UNRWA, UNHCR has a specific mandate to aid its refugees to eliminate their refugee status by local integration in current country, resettlement in a third country or repatriation when possible.[7] UNRWA allows refugee status to be inherited by some descendants.[8]
Employees on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Ford | 2006 | 2015 | Working with refugees | |
| Philippe Lazzarini | Commissioner-General | 2020 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Has International Law Survived, or Has the Western Political Class Killed It? | blog post | 28 January 2024 | Craig Murray | Now think of this: the very next day after President Herzog made a genocidal statement, as determined by the International Court of Justice, he was met and offered “full support” by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission and Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament |
| Document:Outside In: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake the Middle East | Article | 10 October 2018 | Ted Snider | Benjamin Netanyahu refers to his doctrine as Outside In: first you pacify the Outside and ally with the Sunni Arab states (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) outside of Israel, then, in exchange, you extract a peace plan out of them that you then impose Inside on a Palestine now devoid of allies and leave it helpless to hold out against a peace plan forced on the Palestinians by Donald Trump. |
| Document:Pulling no punches at yesterday's rally for Palestine in Bath | Speech | 17 November 2024 | Jonathan Cook | "From their own mouths, Lammy and Starmer have told us who they are. They are genocide deniers. They are enablers of genocide. They are conspirators in genocide, just like those who preceded them in the British government." |
| Document:Simply No Red Lines At All | blog post | 11 October 2024 | Craig Murray | I am simply unable to begin to understand, on a personal basis, the politicians who can condone, support and in fact participate in what Israel is doing. It is simply beyond me. Every time I worry that public interest is faltering and people have become inured to genocide, the Israelis manage to do soemthing still more outrageous. Thankfully social media makes it very hard to hide this. |
| Document:Worse Than You Can Imagine | blog post | 26 April 2024 | Craig Murray | The political class, across the Western world and the Arab world, is utterly divorced from its people over Gaza. We are seeing worldwide repression, as peaceful conferences are stormed by police in Germany, students are beaten by police on American campuses, and in the UK old white people like me suffer the kind of continual harassment long suffered by young Muslim men. |
References
- ↑ Dowty, Alan (2012), Israel/Palestine, Polity, p. 243, ISBN 9780745656113
- ↑ UNRWA in Figures.
- ↑ https://books.google.com/?id=80j612aFo_4C&pg=PA12&dq=UNRWA+%22jewish+refugees%22+1952#v=onepage&q=UNRWA%20%22jewish%20refugees%22%201952&f=false
- ↑ "UNRWA - Who We Are"
- ↑ "Trump and Allies Seek End to Refugee Status for Millions of Palestinians"
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
- ↑ http://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1346247918ICSRAtkinPaperSeries_ElhananMiller.pd
- ↑ http://www.unrwa.org/userfiles/2010011995652.pdf quote=Persons who meet UNRWA's Palestine Refugee criteria These are persons whose regular place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict. Palestine Refugees, and descendants of Palestine refugee males, including legally adopted children, are eligible to register for UNRWA services. The agency accepts new applications from persons who wish to be registered as Palestine Refugees. Once they are registered with UNRWA, persons in this category are referred to as Registered Refugees or as Registered Palestine Refugees.}}
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