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Israel says UNRWA must halt operations in Al-Quds by Jan. 30

siavash — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:36:48 +0000

Israel says UNRWA must halt operations in Al-Quds by Jan. 30

TEHRAN (Iran News) UNRWA should end its operations and leave its premises in Al-Quds no later than January 30, Israel’s ambassador Danny Danon said in a letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres on Friday.

In October 2024, the Israeli Knesset passed two bills that bar UNRWA from operating in occupied territories, and restrict its activities in Gaza and the West Bank on allegations that some of the agency’s staff members had assisted Hamas in its Al-Aqsa Storm Operation on the regime on October 7, 2023.

Israel passed the laws despite widespread international opposition and concerns that a halt to UNRWA activities would severely impact basic services to Palestinian refugees. The UN Security Council has said UNRWA remained the backbone of all humanitarian response in Gaza, and affirmed that no organization can replace the agency’s capacity to serve Palestinian refugees.

UNRWA has been rendering services to Palestinian refugees, including water, food, healthcare and education, since 1950. Currently, almost seven million Palestinian refugees receive UNRWA services in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Al-Quds, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, according to the agency.

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Chairman of OIC parl. union slams end of US UNRWA aid

reporter 1222 — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 07:10:28 +0000

Ali Larijani, the current Chairman of Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States, has condemned US decision to cut financial aid to Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA).

According to the official website of Iranian Parliament, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, the current Chairman of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC), issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the Trump’s administration’s move to cut financial aid to Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA).

“The US government’s action to cut off assistance to the Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) is a flagrant violation of the United Nations General Assembly resolution 302 (1328) and a shameful aggression against the rights of refugees and displaced people of Palestine,” reads Larijani’s statement.

The Chairman of PUIC condemned the Trump’s administration that aims to deprive the Palestinian refugees of their rights to return to their lands by violating UN resolutions and international principles, which follows the US’ other illegal actions in relocating its embassy to Jerusalem al-Quds and approving the apartheid Jewish nation-state law.

The statement further calls on all the parliaments of the PUIC member states to take necessary actions against the US administration’s new move.

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