Israeli Knesset’s Ban on UNRWA Slammed as Horrific, Violation of UN Charter (TruthOut)
“…As some advocates for Palestinian rights pointed out, Israel’s most recent attack on UNRWA is part of Israel’s long term strategy to target the UN and the very concept of international law in order to vastly erode the rights of Palestinian refugees, especially their right to return.
‘The campaign to end UNRWA pre-dates 10/7/23 by decades, and has NOTHING to do with terror,’ Foundation for Middle East Peace President Lara Friedman said. ‘It is and has always been about erasing Palestinians and Palestinian rights.’ Friedman pointed to an article she penned in 2018, in which she wrote that efforts to gut UNRWA are part of ‘unilateral action’ by Israel, the U.S., and other actors ‘to re-define Palestinian refugees out of existence.'”