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Quds Net · 2015-01-26
Palestinian economic researcher Omar Shaban predicted that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) would announce a lack of financial resources needed to continue its programs, including rental assistance for families whose homes were destroyed in the latest Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. He said this would be another indicator of the failure of the UN reconstruction mechanism and all parties connected to it, calling for that failure to be openly acknowledged.
Palestinian economic researcher Omar Shaban predicted that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) would announce a lack of financial resources needed to continue its programs, including rental assistance for families whose homes were destroyed in the latest Israel…
Palestinian economic researcher Omar Shaban expected that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees "UNRWA" would announce a shocking position due to the unavailability of the financial resources needed to continue providing its programs to citizens whose homes were destroyed as a result of the recent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.
Shaban said in remarks on his personal page on the social networking site "Facebook" today, Monday, that "UNRWA will announce today the unavailability of the financial resources necessary to continue providing its programs, such as rental allowance allocations for families whose homes were destroyed, which will make the situation in the Gaza Strip even more tragic."
Shaban, who recently returned from the United States of America, added: "There is information and indicators confirming that the United Nations reconstruction mechanism is on the verge of death, and therefore some international and local parties, employees, and consultants who promoted it have begun withdrawing from it."
Shaban, who is considered an adviser to the Dutch government on the Arab regions and Palestinian affairs, pointed out that "UNRWA's anticipated position is an additional indication of the failure of all parties related to the reconstruction process, beginning with the Kingdom of Norway, which undertook the call for and supervision of the donors' conference, passing through the sterile United Nations mechanism for monitoring construction materials, and ending with the national ministerial team that drew up the plan."
He continued: "It had been expected for months that this mechanism in its entirety would fail," calling on Robert Serry, the United Nations envoy to the peace process who drafted and promoted this mechanism, to announce its failure before leaving his post at the end of next March after eight years in office.
The economic expert called on the promoters of that mechanism to have some courage and declare its failure and their failure as well, and said: "To hell with everyone who was a cause of prolonging the suffering of our people in the Gaza Strip and everyone who worked to increase his profits from our suffering."
Israel launched a war on the Gaza Strip last July that resulted in the killing of more than 2,140 Palestinians and more than 10,000 wounded, compared with the killing of 71 Israelis, in addition to the demolition of thousands of residential homes and enormous destruction to the Strip's infrastructure.
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