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Background UNRWA
Following the 1948 War, UNRWA was established by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 to carry out direct relief and works programmes for Palestine refugees. The Agency began operations on 1 May 1950. defined as “persons whose normal place of residence wasPalestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 War.”
UNRWA’s mission is to help Palestine refugees achieve their full potential in human development. To do this, the Agency provides a variety of services such as health, education and shelter within the framework of international standards to Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
The organization has survived wars, coups, uprisings, and, in Gaza and the West Bank, even the creation of the first-ever Palestinian governing body, the Palestinian Authority, which operates in parallel with, not in place of, UNRWA institutions.
Background Hamas
Hamas is a political organisation with a military wing called the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. It has governed the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
The Hamas movement was founded by Palestinian Islamic scholar Ahmed Yassin in 1987, after the outbreak of the First Intifada against the Israeli occupation. It emerged from his 1973 Mujama al-Islamiya Islamic charity affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
In 2006 Palestinian legislative election, Hamas secured a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council by campaigning on promises of a corruption-free government and advocating for resistance as a means to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation.
In the Battle of Gaza (2007), Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip from rival Palestinian faction Fatah and has since governed the territory separately from the Palestinian National Authority. In 2017, Hamas released a new charter that supported a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders without recognizing Israel.
The United States designated Hamas as a terrorist organisation in 1995, as did Canada in November 2002.
Hidden weapons
Over the years there has been an established pattern of cases where Unrwa’s facilities and schools were used as a storage for Hamas’s missiles and equipment.
- https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/documents/dplc/dv/about_unrwa-/about_unrwa-en.pdf.
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