Posted on 09/21/2014 4:13:30 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The UN's "Palestinian refugee agency" UNRWA on Sunday urged the international community to oppose Israeli plans to relocate thousands of Palestinian Bedouin from the E1 and Maaleh Adumim areas east of Jerusalem, to the area around Jericho, next to the Dead Sea.
"If such a plan were implemented this would ... give rise to concerns that it amounts to a 'forcible transfer' in contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention" banning involuntary population relocation in occupied territory, UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl said.
"It might also make way for further Israeli illegal settlement expansion, further compromising the viability of a two-state solution," he said in a statement. "I urge the Israeli authorities not to proceed with the transfer...and I also urge the donor and state community to take a firm stand against it."
A meeting on international aid to the Palestinian Arabs is to be held in New York on Monday.
UNRWA added that most of those slated for resettlement to Jericho, in the east of the Palestinian Authority territory, were registered Palestinian refugees.
The IDF Civil Administration said there were various plans to rehouse Bedouin and they were being conducted in consultation with community leaders. "As part of the effort to draft master plans for the benefit of the area's Bedouin population, whose purpose is to enable the Bedouin to live in places with suitable infrastructure, dozens of meetings were held with Bedouin leaders," the Administration said in a written response to AFP. "Several plans to prepare such places have been advanced, partly through such meetings."
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shove the squatters back into Saudi!
Aren’t Bedouins Nomads?
Like...they move all the time!
even better ,shove the meddlesome United Nazis twits into Saudi. Then if the nomads want to roam around in the Isareli desert maybe Isr can let them have some fun there, since Israel seems so amazingly solicitous of their feelings anyway.
result: everyone can be happy and we’d finally get rid of the United Nazis from NYC, America!
Palestinian Bedouins can’t be moved. They must stay forever in squalor besides a garbage dump full of disposable diapers. This is their inalienable right, whether they want it or not. Thus sayeth UNRWA.
The same folks that were storing missiles and rockets for the Palestinians and Hamas in their hospitals and orphanages? That UNRWA?
Good grief.
Reduce worldwide suffering: abolish the U.N.
The very same. The UNRWA that has made being a refugee into an inverted aristocratic title, passed down through the generations to any Arab who lived in Mandatory Palestine from 1946 to 1948, and was dumb enough to register as a Palestinian refugee, and now they can never leave the refugee camp. The UNRWA that hires MB teachers to preach hatred to school children. The UNRWA that Obama praised as a stabilizing force in the Middle East. If anyone can think of a crime that UNRWA has committed that 2ndDiv and I have neglected to mention, feel free to add to the list. It is a very long, long list.
Increase world peace. US and Israel quit the UN.
are these the same Bedu who have sons serving in IDF?
Anything coming out of the UN is intended and designed to damage, criticize or otherwise put Israel at a disadvantage. How does it have any credibility whatsoever?
What does the UNRWA have to say about Christians and Yazidis being displaced in Iraq and Syria?
Doesn’t UNRWA have some schoolyard rockets to discover today?
Israel should hire a bunch of Chineese companies to build a full city that can house them and let it sit there unoccupied. Then tell the world ‘We gave them a home. STFU.”
Then, eventually after the outrage, it would become occupied by the terror types as a base of their local caliphate. Then Israel can blow it sky high and tell the world to go to hell since it was rejected for habitation.
Small price to pay for a few thousand dead terrorists and rubbing the worlds nose in it.
I have never tried that particular brew....LOL!
The Palestinians have been breaking agreements at the U. N. for decades. Strangely the U. N. NEVER has the stones to mention it in public.
Israel hick-ups, and the U. N. is right there Johnny on the spot to call it on it’s treachery.
The U. N. would be comical, if it wasn’t such a dire threat to world peace.
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