“That is the most recent within the ongoing marketing campaign to discredit UNRWA and delegitimize its position in direction of offering human-development help and companies to Palestine refugees,” Mr. Lazzarini mentioned in a post on X, following reviews of the long-anticipated vote being taken by Knesset members, passing by a margin on 92-10.
Mr. Lazzarini added that the 2 payments which can reportedly come into impact inside 90 days “will solely deepen the struggling” of Palestinians, particularly in Gaza the place individuals have been going by “greater than a yr of sheer hell”.
“These payments enhance the struggling of the Palestinians and are nothing lower than collective punishment,” he mentioned.
Nearly all the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip is dependent upon humanitarian help, with UNRWA because the “spine” of UN’s aid efforts within the war-ravaged enclave.
Along with serving to ship meals and different lifesaving necessities, UNRWA can also be essential for overseeing the continued polio vaccination drive.
No different to UNRWA
UNRWA’s significance has been reiterated by a number of international locations in addition to UN’s management, together with the Secretary-Common, who has described the company’s historic and main humanitarian position as “irreplaceable”.
Mr. Lazzarini additional acknowledged that placing an finish to UNRWA and its companies “won’t strip the Palestinians from their refugee standing”.
“That standing is protected by one other UN Common Meeting decision till a good and lasting resolution is discovered to the plight of the Palestinians,” he mentioned.
“Failing to push again these payments will weaken our widespread multilateral mechanism established after World Battle Two,” he added.
UNRWA was established by the Common Meeting in December 1949 “to hold out […] direct aid and works programmes” for Palestine refugees. It started its operations on 1 Might 1950.
‘Harmful and outrageous’
In a publish on X, the performing head of UN help coordination workplace, OCHA, expressed her groups’ “full solidarity with UNRWA…whose work is crucial to tens of millions of Palestinians.
Joyce Msuya added that the choice was “harmful and outrageous. There isn’t any different to UNRWA.”
