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Palestine calls on the international community to fulfill its obligations to the UNRWA budget

The head of the Refugee Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ahmed Abu Holly, called on the international community to implement its obligations towards Palestinian refugees and to fulfill the support of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees & quot; UNRWA & quot; The emergency calls and increase aid to refugees and improve them without linking this to certain political requirements, due to the importance of the agency’s role in achieving stability in the region to reach the desired solution for the refugee issue by returning to their homes and property according to what was approved by international legitimacy, especially resolution 194 ."RTL"> & nbsp;

This came in the speech of Ahmed Abu Holly, head of the Refugee Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, head of the Palestine delegation, at the opening session of the 113rd session of the conference supervisors of Palestinian affairs in the host Arab countries, which started today at the Arab League and lasts five days ."RTL"> Abu Holly referred to the operational and financial challenges that UNRWA is exposed to in light of the absence of any additional pledge that covers the financial deficit in its regular budget, which is worth $ 200 million, which may carry grave risks such as the collapse of its work environment, the decline in the services of its employees, or the exacerbation of the humanitarian crisis in all its operating areas ."RTL"> He expressed very unfortunately about the UNRWA strategic evaluation report because the possible scenarios in it to move forward to address the challenges faced by UNRWA contradicts the decisions of the United Nations General Assembly, stressing the need to coordinate together and work to form a working group to review the UNRWA strategic assessment report ."RTL"> He warned that these challenges are heading to a dangerous direction with the exacerbation of the living situation of Palestinian refugees in the Palestinian camps in the five UNRWA operations areas in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and in the Gaza Strip and in the host Arab countries in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon ."RTL"> Abu Holly said that in front of this complex reality & quot; UNRWA & quot; For political, operational and financial challenges as a result of banning its activities in East Jerusalem, closing its headquarters in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, closing its schools, undermining its mandate in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with the entrepreneurship of Israeli law on January 30, 2025, in addition to targeting it militarily, which resulted in the destruction of more than 70% of its facility in the Gaza Strip and the death of 327 employees of its workers, in an endeavor of the occupation to dismantle UNRWA The neighborhood is on the Nakba and undermines the mandate of the areas granted to it in accordance with the relevant general assembly decisions, including decisions 194 and 302 in an attempt to liquidate the issue of Palestinian refugees ."RTL"> He expressed his appreciation to the host countries on all their good care and attention to the Palestinian refugees and carried them additional financial burdens to alleviate their suffering in light of the economic conditions that the region suffers from, pointing to the extremist aggression pursued by the Israeli occupation government, and the escalation of its aggressive practices against the Palestinian people and their fixed and legitimate national rights, and its continuation in the war of genocide and the starvation of the Gaza Strip The holders since October 7, 2023, ignoring Security Council Resolution 2735, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to stop the war in addition to the closure of Gaza crossings and the prevention of the introduction of aid and communications for more than 2.4 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, are chasing the risk of risk on the reputation and sight of the world ."RTL"> Abu Walli added that the occupation is still its military aggression against the camps of Jenin, Tulkarm and Nour Shams in the northern West Bank, which started since January 21, 2025, which caused the rise of martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and the destruction of its infrastructure from water and sanitation networks, electricity and communications networks, the destruction of roads, burning and destroying hundreds of homes, shops, and UNRWA educational facilities And health, and the displacement"Ltr">."RTL"> He explained that in the midst of these continuous crimes against the Palestinian people, the occupation authorities continue to resume their settlement plans through their ratification to build 22 new colonies in the occupied West Bank during the current year only, and their return to settlements that were evacuated in 2005 in implementation of the law to cancel the disengagement in the north of the West Bank by returning the settlements that were dismantled in 2005, with the aim of changing the geographical reality And the demographic in the occupied Palestinian territory, in addition to devoting its occupation, imposing its sovereignty on the West Bank lands, undermining international efforts to a two -state solution ."RTL"> He said & quot, and attempts to change the historical and legal situation in Islamic and Christian holy places, especially in the blessed Al -Aqsa Mosque, are accompanied by the continuous incursions of settlers and the poles of the far -right government and the closure of its institutions, the last of which was the closure of a fund and the endowment of Jerusalem and the most dangerous of that extremist inflammatory calls launched by right -wing settlement groups to detonate the blessed Al -Aqsa Mosque and build the temple The alleged in its place and physical attacks on worshipers, including preventing Christians from reaching their churches ."RTL"> Abu Holly said that the world has recently witnessed the crimes of murders and abuse against Palestinian children and youth, intimidation and brutal terrorism for civilians and burning houses, the last of which was the crime of the village of Kafr Malik, the Arabs of Al -Mulaihat, and the displacement of more than 30 gatherings as if they included 323 families from their places The Palestinian presence, its dedication and residence is a Jewish ethnic state that dispels the international endeavor to the two -state solution & nbsp;

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