Israel has long wanted to dismantle the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency.

Benjamin Netanyahu sat down for his regular cabinet meeting and had some words for a new ally – and an old enemy. “Last week I met with US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley,” the Israeli prime minister told his colleagues. “I thanked her, on your behalf as well, for her decisive words in favor of the state of Israel – and against the anti-Israel obsession at the UN.”
“It is time UNRWA be dismantled,” he declared. It was June 2017: the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency. The possibilities for Netanyahu – who once bunked in the childhood bed of Trump’s son-in-law – seemed endless. In a few months, the American president would buck decades of foreign policy precedent and move his country’s embassy to the disputed city of Jerusalem.
In the case of UNRWA – the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees – Netanyahu would not get his wish so quickly. It would take another eight years. The Israeli parliament, or Knesset, on October 28 voted through legislation to ban UNRWA from Israel and prohibit any contact between it and Israeli officials. Israel on Monday officially notified the UN that it was cancelling its 1967 agreement allowing the agency to work. The two laws do not mean the immediate end of the agency. Nor do they technically prevent it from working in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. But given the near-inextricable link between the agency’s ability to function there and the Israeli authorities, they almost certainly mean the end of UNRWA’s operation as we know it.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/03/middleeast/israel-unwra-knesset-bill-analysis-intl/index.html

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