
Save UNRWA
By Jonathan Kuttab The United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) is a hard working, respectable agency first created soon after the Nakba to meet the immediate needs of the Palestinian refugees who had been ethnically cleansed from Palestine in 1948. It had a unique mandate, separate from the UN High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR). This agency was limited to Palestinian refugees, its funding was to be raised separately from the funding of the United Nations itself, and its functions were specified to be temporary until