Zakaria al-Agha, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee and head of its refugee department, has condemned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's call for the dismantling of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza, which provides aid to some of the Arabs who left Israel in 1948 and their descendants throughout the ages. The call followed the latest revelation of terror tunnels under two UN schools.
According to Ar'a, the second part of the condition for accepting Israel's membership in the UN was settling the "refugee problem." He added that the "Palestinian people" adhered to the settlement of the "refugee problem" in accordance with General Assembly Resolution 194 in the framework of a comprehensive arrangement that would include the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital, and until then UNRWA is committed to continuing its missions.