MK Benny Elon (NU/NRP) responded Monday to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) warning that it would not be able to provide food to one million Arabs in Gaza if Israel did not open Gaza crossings. Israel should demand that UNRWA be shut down immediately, Elon said.
Elon explained that UNRWA, a group dedicated solely to assisting the “refugee” descendants of Arabs who fled Israel in the 1940s, is creating a drawn-out humanitarian crisis and encouraging attacks on Israel. “The international community needs to rehabilitate the refugees” and provide them with permanent homes, he said. Elon has called for Arab refugees to be granted Jordanian citizenship.