"... Israel’s obstruction flouts the UN security council’s demand that it lift “all barriers to the provision of humanitarian assistance at scale”. That blockage is a war crime, as the international criminal court prosecutor Karim Khan has warned. It also contravenes the international court of justice’s order in its preliminary genocide ruling, which, fueling further Israel’s animosity, relied in part on evidence provided by Unrwa.
Israel
also hopes to destroy Unrwa because the government naively believes
that Palestinian refugees would then somehow forget that they are
Palestinian refugees and stop insisting on a right to return. Many would not exercise
that right but others would. Israel denies this right not only for
return to Israel within its 1967 borders but also for return to the
occupied Palestinian territory – to Palestine..."
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| People walk past Unrwa’s damaged Gaza City headquarters on 15 February 2024. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images |
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