Human Wrongs Watch
UN Agency Responsible for Palestinian Refugees “Will Crumble” Unless Funding Is Found Quickly
25/06/2024
Different Generations, Same Dispossession in Gaza
Human Wrongs Watch
(UNRWA)* —This World Refugee Day [20 June 2024], Palestine Refugees in Gaza are struggling to survive a humanitarian tragedy that, for the older generations, is a chilling echo of their past dispossession.
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Abu Kefah stands on a dune overlooking an IDP encampment. © 2024 UNRWA Photo
Young and old alike continue to survive amid the unspeakable violence of nearly nine months of war.
Abu Kefah Qadih, is an 81-year-old Palestine Refugee from Khan Younis. He has weathered forced displacement not once, but twice in his lifetime. As a child, he endured the horror of the Nakba – the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Now he has been forced to witness the dispossession of his own grandchildren.
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25/06/2024
A Move to Out-Maneuver US Veto on Palestine
Human Wrongs Watch
– The United States—which has continued to use its veto power to block Palestine from UN membership —may be out-maneuvered by a growing new campaign by some UN member states planning to establish full political and diplomatic relations with Palestine outside the confines of the United Nations.
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Results of the General Assembly’s vote on the resolution on the status of the Observer State of Palestine. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías
The latest recognitions of the Palestinian territory as a sovereign State are by Norway, Ireland, Spain and Slovenia, which comes after the General Assembly overwhelmingly voted — with 143 votes in favour to nine votes against- – to back Palestine’s bid to become a full-fledged member of the United Nations on last month.
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