return for Palestinian refugees to their original homes and to reparations. These rights are fundamentally incompatible with a partitioned outcome that legitimizes their forced displacement/transfer and dispossession. As previously explained, this right is not only central to Resolution 194 but is also embedded in Article 5 of Resolution 302, which defines UNRWA’s purpose as providing relief pending the implementation of Palestinian return. Promoting the two-state framework, prioritizes preserving the status quo of the Israeli regime and its colonial, apartheid, and forced displacement policies, reinforcing structures that obstruct restitution, accountability, and return. By refusing to anchor the conversation in UNRWA’s original mandate, rooted in international responsibility for displacement caused by the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime, the Assessment shifts the debate from decolonization and return to risk management and containment. Its silence on the systemic nature of Israeli attacks against UNRWA—and the historical campaign to destroy its infrastructure and legitimacy—only deepens this erasure. 18