Human Rights Watch urges EU donors to restore or continue Unrwa support

Human Rights Watch said in a statement that it is “unconscionable” to close the UN agency “most able” to provide much-needed lifesaving humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza who are “on the brink of famine".

The letter is addressed to Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign affairs chief, among others.

“We are also concerned about the longer-term implications shutting down UNRWA would have, especially on the right of Palestinian refugees to return, enshrined in UN General Assembly Resolution 194 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” Human Rights Watch also wrote.