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Via JPost:
The Palestinians on Saturday strongly condemned the US administration’s decision to cut the entire US aid budget to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) and warned that the move would promote terrorism and extremism.
They said that they were now considering seeking the help of the UN General Assembly and Security Council to counter the decision, which Palestinian officials condemned as a US declaration of war on the issue of Palestinian refugees in particular and the Palestinian cause in general.
On Friday, the State Department said that the US has decided to end all funding for UNRWA and described the agency as “irredeemably flawed.” The US administration has “carefully reviewed” the issue and “will not make additional contributions to UNRWA,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauret said.
Palestinian Authority presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaineh said that the US decision “does not serve peace; rather, it promotes terrorism in the region.” He added: “This is an assault on the rights of the Palestinian people, and part of a series of anti-Palestinian US decisions and policies.”
The US decision to cut the funds to UNRWA, Abu Rudaineh said, was “in violation of all international resolutions, and this requires the UN to take a firm stance and appropriate decisions to confront it.”
The Palestinian leadership is currently considering going to the UN General Assembly and Security Council to encounter the US administration’s decision, he added.
“Regardless of the magnitude of the conspiracies aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause, this will only increase our people’s and leaders’ determination to pursue the struggle to thwart all these plots,” the PA spokesman said.
He pointed out that UNRWA was established in accordance with a resolution issued by the UN General Assembly in 1949, and its role should continue until the issue of the refugees is resolved.
Because of its importance, PA President Abbas will talk about the issue of the refugees during his speech at the General Assembly later this month, Abu Rudaineh said.
PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said that the US was not authorized to abolish the role of UNRWA. The US administration’s decision, he said, contravened international law and the UN resolution that led to the establishment of UNRWA.