To the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
The PLO must challenge and take measures to support UNRWA by:
1. Rejecting the Strategic Assessment as a colonial framework that
reduces a political crisis to a technical issue and detaches services from
the right to reparations ( return, property restitution, compensation,
and rehabilitation and non-repetition) and assert clear red lines: no
service transfer, no donor-led Executive Board, no reinterpretation of
the mandate outside UNGA Resolutions 302 and 194.
2. Leading a diplomatic campaign to ensure any restructuring includes
host states and refugee representatives.
3. Demanding that UNRWA’s future be addressed through decolonization,
return, and restitution—not downsizing.
To the International Community
States must move beyond symbolic support and:
1. Reaffirm UNRWA’s mandate under Resolutions 302 and 194; reject
separating services from refugee rights.
2. Oppose the shifting of services to host states or UN agencies, which
de-internationalizes responsibility and undermines refugee status.
3. Take concrete material measures to prevent and challenge Israeli
regime attacks and protect UNRWA as violations of international law
and UN privileges.
4. Reject parallel or replacement systems that fragment responsibility
and enable UNRWA’s collapse.
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