American Association of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists says UNRWA’s mandate directs the UN to prevent the resettlement of Palestinians, and artificially inflates their numbers by including descendants of original Palestinian refugees from Israel’s 1948 War of Independence.
By Shlomo Cesana
The United Nations is scheduled on Monday to discuss revisions to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The discussion will focus, among other things, on an initiative by the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists which calls for reforming the manner in which a Palestinian refugee is defined.
A Palestinian girl at an UNRWA school [Archive] – Photo: Reuters
The association’s goal is to fundamentally change the objectives of UNRWA’s activities.
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