b) Expanding UNRWA’s geographical mandate to include all Palestinian refugees and IDPs in the areas where they are present, not only in UNRWA’s current five areas of operation. c) Expanding UNRWA’s legal mandate to explicitly include legal and physical protection, including the protection and management of refugee and IDPs’ properties. UNRWA’s mandate no longer being restricted to the provision of humanitarian aid. 3. Ensure that UNRWA’s core program budget (General Fund), which is needed to cover core program and services, is incorporated as part of states’ compulsory contributions to the UN Regular Budget (currently 4 percent of UNRWA’s budget). UNRWA’s General Fund will take into account an annual increase that is commensurate to the increasing number and growing needs of the refugee population. 4. Calling on the UN Secretary General to take practical measures and develop a mechanism to implement UNGA resolutions concerning the protection and management of Palestinian refugees’ properties – in place of the so-called Israeli Custodian of Absentee Properties – ensuring that they benefit from the proceeds from their properties in accordance with relevant resolutions.16 Such mechanism should include taking practical measures to oblige Israel to pay the proceeds of refugee properties.17 16 17 20 UNCCP, Third Progress Report to the Secretary General of the United Nations (for the period extending from 9 April to 8 June 1949 inclusive), Annex A, 13 June 1949, available at: https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/ AD7D4FE6D9F547CB8525750C00766FAB. See UN Special Committee on Palestine, Report to the General Assembly, A/364, 3 September 1947, available at: https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal. nsf/0/07175DE9FA2DE563852568D3006E10F3 [accessed 27 Jul 2018]; UN General Assembly, General Assembly Resolution 34/146, A/RES/36/146, 16 December 1981, available at: http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/36/a36r146. htm [accessed 27 Jul 2018]; see its latest recall in UN General Assembly, Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues, A/RES/72/83, 14 December 2017, available at: http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/ RES/72/83 [accessed 27 Jul 2018]. For resolutions on Israel’s rejection, see: UNRWA, Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues, A/72/334, 14 August 2017, available at: https://undocs.org/A/72/334 [accessed 27 Jul 2018]; UNRWA, Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues, A/71/343, 19 August 2016, available at: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N16/263/72/ PDF/N1626372.pdf