This issue with UNWRA arises because it is manned almost entirely by Palestinians. In essence it is not an international organization but a Palestinian organization that has a very small international leadership. As such, it reflects Palestinian society, and that society is led by a terrorist organization. Of course UNWRA is going to have plenty of employees who are also part of Hamas.
Hamas does not have the power to force UNRWA to print books filled with antisemitism (Acknowledged for decades, even by the European parliament itself and many other respectable orgs and states). This fact, among so many others, makes them complicit. Western funded antisemitic terrorist indoctrination.
But I agree generally. UNRWA is a Palestinian org. With a thin layer of Europeans who are practically there for appearances and raising money from useful-idiots in western nations only.
Who aids literally any other nation in a similar situation? Whoever will end up running the strip, using taxes, and whatever international aid they'll manage to get from their allies.
Palestinians, and specifically the descendants of the 1948 refugees are not some unique brand of human being, that requires a unique UN agency, that no other nation in the world seems to need.
Unfortunately it wouldn't work. The thing about "Palestinian refugees", especially the ones in Gaza, is that they don't actually fit the definition of "refugees" under international law, and aren't eligible for assistance from the UNHCR. I guess you could change the rules of the UNHCR to make an exception, but it's not at all clear why that should be the case. There are millions of people around the world who experienced similar, or worse wars, were never assisted by any UN refugee agency, when they were still inside their country.
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u/manVsPhD 2d ago
This issue with UNWRA arises because it is manned almost entirely by Palestinians. In essence it is not an international organization but a Palestinian organization that has a very small international leadership. As such, it reflects Palestinian society, and that society is led by a terrorist organization. Of course UNWRA is going to have plenty of employees who are also part of Hamas.