After the war in Gaza is over, Unrwa cannot and must not be part of any solution for the Gazans (and those in Judea and Samaria)

The entire world has witnessed a pogrom that had been rehearsed for decades in the UNRWA schools. The systematic UNRWA call for violence had been witnessed and ignored by the IDF for a generation.  

As a result of the war in Syria, the UNRWA refugee camps in Syria have disintegrated. Hamas, with the backing of Qatar, recruited followers in these camps to fight alongside the Sunnis who were fighting against President Assad’s Camp, Assad did not forget this and obliterated what remained of the UNRWA refugee camps in Syria. 

The IDF has entered the largest UNRWA camp in Gaza- Jabalia – where we witness the destruction of that UNRWA facility while a new Arab refugee situation in the south of Gaza is now festering. 

Against the wishes of Hamas, UNRWA staff moved to the south of Gaza together with the new flow of refugees and they are providing aid for the new refugees. This could be a new beginning of a focus on reforms in the Palestinian education curriculum which was UNRWA’s Achilles heel. 

That UNRWA curriculum was directly responsible for the barbarous pogroms that took place in Southern Israel and the aftermath of disaster in Gaza. For decades the UNRWA curriculum has groomed generations of Palestinian Arabs of all ages to murder Jews, delegitimize the State of Israel and strengthened the demand for the “Right of Return by force of arms.

The gruesome horrific scenes from the atrocities which were perpetrated on Simchat Torah – October 7- were committed by the UNRWA Gaza camps against civilian men, women, children and babies, witnessed by whole world, were the direct product of UNRWA’s indoctrination of genocide in their schools run by Hamas, 

The obvious conclusion must be either that UNRWA goes through a comprehensive policy change to overhaul its schools or hands over the responsibility of the Palestinian refugees who are no longer 1948 refugees but 2023 refugees to another organization to be agreed.

The entire UNRWA school system must now break from the sanctification of the Right of Return while providing aid for the new refugees to rehabilitate in the places where they are now residing.

If UNRWA will not take it upon itself this mission, the new warming of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia should join forces in the rehabilitation of Gaza, while transferring the responsibility over Gaza from Qatar to Saudi Arabia. 

Hamas is not alone in promoting the armed rebellion of the UNRWA refugee camps. The PA is a huge advocate of violent incitement against Israel in the refugee camps of Judea and Samaria.

With this understanding it is imperative that Gaza’s rehabilitation must include also a comprehensive fundamental change the UNRWA school curriculum that indoctrinates total war against Israel. It is this curriculum is to blame for the suffering now facing by Jews and Arabs  

 At this point in time, more than 60 major nations and 33 international relief agencies pour $1,6 billion into UNRWA, with 58% allocated to UNRWA “education”- with no constraints. 

At a time when UNRWA schools in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and Gaza have been operating as virtual arsenals, with UNRWA donors looking the other way, the open checkbook for UNRWA must end