Page 37 - Issue 62
P. 37

Ramadan            Vol.1 Issue 62 December 2023                                          ELITE

   Kareem























                                   Deinternationalizing and Deinstitutionalizing the

                                                         Palestinian Cause
                                          Abdelrahman Sakr - Second Level - Economics




                   According  to  UNRWA’S  85TH  situation <an unofficial substitute for the state=. This is
                   report on Gaza and the West Bank, only 7 of mainly  due  to  the  redirection  of  aid  that
                   the  agency’s  23  health  care  centers  are happened in 2007, when Hamas overthrew the
                   operating,  serving  Gaza’s  population  of  2 Palestinian Authority and took control of the
                   million.  The  report  quoted  a  UNICEF strip. Western donors did not want to support
                   statement: <People are hungry, exhausted and the         new    ruler,   and     thus   redirected
                   traumatized.  Many  are  clinging  to  life.= humanitarian  and  institutional  aid  that  was

                   Approximately 1.9 million internally displaced being  given  to  the  PA  in  Gaza  to  UNRWA.
                   persons  (IDPs)  are  either  living  in  154 Put more simply, Hamas is just a political and
                   UNRWA  shelters  or  in  close  proximity  to military authority in Gaza while UNRWA acts
                   these shelters. And without least consideration as the main provider of civil services. So having
                   of  international  humanitarian  law,  Israel  has ties between the main provider of civil services
                   caused  damage  to  155  UNRWA  installations in Gaza and Hamas is normal.
                   and  killed  404  IDPs  seeking  shelter  in  it  and
                   158  of  its  staff.    Instead  of  putting  more
                   pressure  on  Israel  to  allow  more  aid  into  the
                   strip  and  to  stop  targeting  UNRWA’s
                   buildings  and  staff,  UNRWA’s  western
                   donors-  most  importantly  its  top  two  donors,
                   US and Germany- has decided to cut funding
                   due  to  Israel’s  allegations  that  12  of  the

                   organization’s  employees,  2  of  which  have
                   already  been  killed,  has  participated  in  the
                   events of the 7th of October with Hamas.
                      The organization has become more and more
                   crucial  since  the  2000s  because  of  its  central
                   role  in  providing  food,  healthcare,  and
     37            education  for  Palestinian  refugees  in  Gaza.
                   According to Daniel Forti, a senior Analyst in
                   UN  advocacy  and  research  at  International
                   Crisis Group, UNRWA can be considered as
   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42