Head of the Popular Committee to Break Gaza Siege Jamal al-Khudari on Wednesday warned that the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly might end without finding effective solutions to UNRWA’s crisis.
MP al-Khudari said in a press statement “If the meeting ends without reaching solutions to save UNRWA it means that worse days are yet to come and that the life of more than five and a half million refugees is threatened at the humanitarian health environmental and educational levels.”
Al-Khudari added that the United Nations General Assembly which had mandated UNRWA to take care of refugees is responsible for making real actions toward ending the crisis.
He noted that over one million refugees in the Gaza Strip depend mainly on UNRWA’s aid to them. “Halting aid is like a death sentence” he stressed.
He also touched on the suffering of half a million students in Palestine and abroad whose future is at stake and called for quick international intervention to help UNRWA.
Al-Khudari called for further financial support by donor countries pointing out that one single country is able to fill the $250 million deficit in UNRWA’s budget.
“We hope there is nothing being plotted against the refugees” he said referring to the US attempts to drop the right of return and liquidate the Palestinian refugees’ issue through the Deal of the Century.
