The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been operating since 1 May 1950 under repeatedly renewed mandates in the absence of a political solution. In recent years, UNRWA has reiterated that lack of funding is rendering it incapable of meeting the demands of Palestinian refugees in basic needs such as healthcare and education. UNRWA’s dependence on donor funding, and given that the biggest donors to UNRWA are also Israel’s closest allies, makes humanitarian aid compromised. Given that the international community invented the humanitarian paradigm to prevent Palestinian refugees from claiming their political rights, the current crisis should illuminate the disaster created by the UN’s tenacity in protecting Israel’s colonial presence and expansion in Palestine. UNRWA employees … Continue reading The international humanitarian paradigm keeps failing Palestinians