The Swedish government on Monday announced a grant of $8 million to UNRWA, the UN body established only to deal with the roughly 800,000 Arabs who left Israel during the 1948 War of Independence and their now roughly 5 million descendants.
Back in 2015 Sweden donated $45 million for UNRWA, which claims that it still needs $817 million in order to provide the minimum services for “Palestinian refugees” in the Middle East.
UNRWA sources have said that over 60% of the “refugees” in Syria have been uprooted from their homes and rely on UNRWA aid in order to survive. The number of Palestinian Arabs in Syria was measured at 450,000 before the bloody civil war broke out there in 2011.
UNRWA likewise claims that around a quarter of the 775,000 “refugees” in Judea and Samaria – a number representing roughly 200,000 people – suffer from food shortages and malnutrition.
This very week those “refugees” in Judea and Samaria are protesting against UNRWA, blocking the organization’s cars and facilities in the region over the decision to replace its food distribution system with a cash card system – even though the new system ends up giving them more annual benefits.
That protest comes after UNRWA offices in Lebanon were likewise closed by protests last Thursday and Friday, over a new policy requiring the “refugees” to pay a limited co-payment on medical treatment.
UNRWA has radically different policies from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which treats all other refugees worldwide, and as a result the now five million descendants of “Palestinian refugees” retain that refugee status and are not integrated into their host nations.
No UN body was formed to help the 850,000 Jewish refugees who were violently forced from Arab countries following the establishment of the modern Jewish state. In that expulsion ancient Jewish communities, some dating back to Temple times, were forcibly uprooted and in the process had their fortunes stolen.
UNRWA has also been exposed as actively inciting terrorism, and it was revealed as collaborating with Hamas in Gaza during 2014 Operation Protective Edge when missiles were stored in UNRWA facilities.
