On November 3, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially informed the United Nations that it was cancelling the contractual arrangements with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) it had first signed in 1967.
Global community incensed by Israel's banning of Hamas-linked UNRWA aid agency should reconsider its ugly history
In 1950, IRO was succeeded by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , which still exists today.A staff member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East look at a warehouse belonging to the UNRWA which was destroyed by the Israeli army in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on July 6, 2024.
What’s more, UNRWA has also developed its own definition of a refugee, to include all descendants of the original refugees displaced in the 1948 Israeli-Arab war, in perpetuity. This number will keep climbing forever due to this absurd definition - one not available to any other refugee on Earth. Yet this is a result of the fact their Arab brethren nations apart from Jordan have refused to absorb them for more than 75 years.
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