Published : 31-01-2020
UNRWA spokesman Sami Mshasha said the agency has no intention to end its operations or transfer its services to another party.
In a press statement issued in response to the US President Donald Trump’s announcement of his peace plan, Mshasha said UNRWA services are vital for Palestine refugees, adding that the agency will maintain its relief assistance to them pending a just and lasting solution to their plight.
He said the Agency’s services will keep going in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza, until a fair solution is established to the Palestinian refugee cause.
Mshasha said UNRWA’s mandate, which 169 member states of the UN General Assembly voted in favor of last month, is legitimate and cannot be rescinded by such new deals.
“Our only reference is the UNGA. Palestinians’ refugee status and rights are safeguarded by international law and international resolutions”, he said.
Trump released his proposed deal during an event at the White House alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Tuesday.
The so-called 'Vision for Peace' — which all Palestinian groups have unanimously rejected — would, among other contentious terms, enshrine Jerusalem as “Israel’s unpided capital” and allow the occupying regime to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley.
UNRWA spokesman Sami Mshasha said the agency has no intention to end its operations or transfer its services to another party.
In a press statement issued in response to the US President Donald Trump’s announcement of his peace plan, Mshasha said UNRWA services are vital for Palestine refugees, adding that the agency will maintain its relief assistance to them pending a just and lasting solution to their plight.
He said the Agency’s services will keep going in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza, until a fair solution is established to the Palestinian refugee cause.
Mshasha said UNRWA’s mandate, which 169 member states of the UN General Assembly voted in favor of last month, is legitimate and cannot be rescinded by such new deals.
“Our only reference is the UNGA. Palestinians’ refugee status and rights are safeguarded by international law and international resolutions”, he said.
Trump released his proposed deal during an event at the White House alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Tuesday.
The so-called 'Vision for Peace' — which all Palestinian groups have unanimously rejected — would, among other contentious terms, enshrine Jerusalem as “Israel’s unpided capital” and allow the occupying regime to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley.
