Jerusalem (AP) – In Sure Fat refugees Camp, Hard Scrabble District in the eastern Jerusalem The car surrounded by concrete walls went towards Israel’s checkpoints.
Fierce security I get angry from the camp and get angry. However, 42 -year -old AREJ TAHA did not need to leave for treatment on Monday. She treated her toothache and picked up insulin shots from the blocks from the place where the children finished the day at the UN-RUN school.
If there is no local government service, united nations The Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA, is the main provider of decent medical and education for Sure Fat Camp residents. When UNRWA leavesTaha said, “I don’t want to think about what we do.”
However, from the garbage pickup to the water system maintenance, these services and all services prohibited UNRWA operating in Israeli territory on Thursday, banning that Israel officials from contacting institutions. It may disappear after it is enforced later.
The most immediate impact is in East Jerusalem, which was seized by Israel during the 1967 Middle East War and combined with most of the world. UNRWA headquarters shuts down immediately. The prohibition of passing the Israeli Congress in October is the occupied west coast and west coast. Gaza areaIt is about 2 million Palestinian lifelines, mostly from the 15 -month -old Israelhamas war.
Israel has long criticized UNRWA, claiming that it will make Palestinians permanent Refugee status。 The campaign for agencies has intensified from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other right -wing politicians since Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023 on the southern Israeli. Israel claims that about 12 of Gaza UNRWA employees have participated in the attack and many other employees are supporting or sympathetic to Hamas.
It is said that the agency denies that the armed groups will be intentionally supported, and will act quickly to purify suspicious militants among the staff.
Palestinian parents were surprised
It was unknown on Wednesday, a few hours before the law was implemented, as to how the law was implemented and the operation of UNRWA must be stopped. Even UNRWA officials said they didn’t know what would happen.
David Menser, the Israeli government spokesman, said UNRWA was banned in Israel in 48 hours on Wednesday.
“From next week, all children of UNRWA schools will be placed in all kinds of schools in East Jerusalem,” said Reron Ifro, Deputy Director of the Jerusalem problem office in Israel.
However, the officials of Israeli government, who have knowledge of the details of the law, said that there was no intention of physically closing institutions, but only that it would be more difficult for institutions to work without adjusting Israel. is. The formula talked about the anonymity discussing the plan.
According to UNRWA officials, the primaryheruscare will end by completely closing up to 80,000 Palestinians of East Jerusalem through about 20 medical centers. In the middle of the school year, you will stop education and vocational training for up to 1,000 children.
“Is he going to leave school now? Where are you going? He just liked the school,” said Karim Hawash, the city’s worker. “The school here is already very overcrowded.”
There is no municipal school in the camp. In other words, children who leave the UNRWA school must enter and exit a destination that is not yet known through Israel’s checkpoints.
The end of the end?
The immediate impact on UNRWA’s work on the West Coast or Gaza Street on the West Coast of the Jordan is unknown, but assisted workers say that repression threatens the role of UNRWA as a backbone of the regional humanitarian logistics.
Jonathan Fowler, a UNRWA senior communication manager, said from East Erusalem Component, “it will affect everything we can.”
This agency offers a huge basic service to 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, 1.1 million Palestinians on the west bank of the Jordan River. During the War of Israel Hamas, it was a major institution that guarantees the delivery of food, medical supplies, and other assistance that the population of Gaza relies on surviving.
UNRWA uses Israeli storage facilities for the aid transportation fleet tied to Gaza, and needs to communicate with Israeli authorities who control the access to Gaza and move materials inside and outside.
“The help needs to be redirected,” Menzer said.
Ally King, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, also states on the west coast of the Jordan, as well, says, “There is no freedom of exercise as before.” “They cannot enter and exit Israel through borders and checkpoints.”
Agency that causes a controversial
UNRWA, the fate of Palestinian refugees born from one of the most sensitive issues in Israel and Palestinian conflicts, is not used to controversy.
In the 1948 war over the creation of Israel, about 700,000 Palestinians who refused to return to Israel, called “catastrophe”, or Israel. When you are forced, when you are driven out of their house. The Arab government resisted integration.
In 1949, the UN General Assembly created UNRWA, released the population, and helped to lock the house. It was intended to be temporary until the political end of the dispute between Israel and Palestine. But the system has become permanent.
About 1 million Palestinians who landed in UNRWA’s roll after escaping from the war in 1948 and 1967 were almost 6 million in the west coast of the Jordan, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Dozens of tent camps installed by UNRWA in the Middle East several decades ago were built in a dense area of the apartment block and the hamming market.
“The international community has decided many times that we should continue what we are doing because there were no fair and permanent solutions,” Fauler said. “There is no functional state structure that can provide these types of services.”
Israel has long been argued that maintaining a steadily growing refugee population will make the dispute permanent. President Donald Trump also blocked his funds during his first term and was hostile to the agency.
UNRWA defenders believe that Israel’s efforts to eliminate government agencies are related to the hope that Palestinian refugees will return to the old house in Israel. Israel is the home of 7 million Jews, and the large return of Palestinian refugees ends the majority of the Jews.
At the Surefat Refugee Camp, the Palestinians who escaped from them in 1948 are aware of the blue ID of Jerusalem residents, so that the Israeli citizens can travel. They pay taxes to Israeli municipalities and are subject to Israeli law.
However, in 2002, when Israel set up a barrier to separation for a clear purpose of protecting suicide terrorism, the Surefat Camp was left outside the wall, and was disconnected from the rest of the city by checkpoints. It was left behind in a bureaucratic frontier.
The population of the camp exploded as a Palestinian from the west coast of the Jordan River, but it was not allowed to live there, but no one has enforced the rules.
Israeli officials argue that they are committing to improve services for Palestinians in East Jerusalem, but they are long.
“I can’t work in one day,” said Iffla when the municipality was asked to take UNRWA at the Surefat Camp.
But in a few days, Taha needs more insulin.
There is no blue ID -she doesn’t mean she can’t enter Jerusalem -she doesn’t know what she does.
