Pierre Krähenbühl, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), attends a ceremony to mark the return to school at one of the UNRWA schools at a Palestinian refugee camp Al-Wehdat, in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. Pierre Krähenbühl, the commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, also rejected U.S. criticism that the organization only perpetuated the refu­gee problem by creating an ever expanding population of beneficiaries. In its statement ending the funding, the State Department criticized the “expanding community of entitled beneficiaries,” served by the program. I have asked the Israelis if they would agree to such an offer.”Abbas also said he believed that the “U.S. He juxtaposed this with the Palestinian refugee issue, saying they had “created a unique institution, 70 years ago, not to absorb the refugees but to perpetuate them.”“The U.S. has done a very important thing by halting the financing for the refugee perpetuation agency known as UNRWA.

Source: Washington Post September 03, 2018 12:11 UTC