The Permanent Observer for the State of Palestine at the UN, Riyad Mansour, pointed out the unsustainability of donor funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) at the Pledging Conference in New York last Saturday. Nevertheless, the silence on the politicisation of humanitarian aid for Palestinian refugees persisted from the Palestinian Authority’s senior diplomat at the international organisation. The conference spelled another disaster in terms of donor funding for UNRWA, with only $107 million pledged out of the $300m the agency needs to provide basic services in education and healthcare from September to December this year. “When UNRWA’s future hangs in the balance, so do the lives of millions of Palestine refugees relying on essential … Continue reading Humanitarian aid for Palestinians favours the Israeli colonial enterprise