📅 16/01/2026
UNRWA Under Political Siege: Targeting the International Witness to the Palestinian Refugee Cause
UNRWA Under Political
Yasser Ali / Director General of the Palestinian Retur Foundation
Since its establishment in 1949 by a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly (Resolution 302), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been one of the most prominent international witnesses to the crime of displacing the Palestinian people from their land and to the ongoing nature of the refugee cause as the core of the conflict, not a passing humanitarian matter. For this very reason, UNRWA has never been immune to political targeting, particularly from the United States and the Zionist entity.
UNRWA’s role has not been limited to providing educational, health, and relief services to more than five million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Rather, it has represented a renewed international recognition of the refugees’ rights and the international...