Peace Council statement disappointing

A correct direction, a realistic legal vision, and an independent political will were expressed by "Human Rights Watch" through its statement issued in response to the statements of the American "Peace Council" led by President Trump, in which it said that "the Gaza Strip does not need the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)."

The Peace Council's decision revealed from its very first step that it does not respond to the interests of the afflicted people: the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and expressed its first bias towards the plans of the Israeli colony aimed at eliminating the place and role of UNRWA in direct cooperation with the American administration, to weaken UNRWA, diminish its role, and impoverish it by stopping financial aid to it, with the aim of eliminating it from operation and the result and goal is to work to eliminate the reasons for its existence, which is the issue of Palestinian refugees who represent half of the Palestinian Arab people, and with the aim of eliminating their identity, eliminating their cause, eliminating their right to return to Lod, Ramle, Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, Safed, Tiberias, Beisan, Beersheba, and to all the cities and villages from which they were expelled in 1948, and restoring their properties from and in them.

The refugee issue is not a secondary issue, left to the passage of time; it is a reality and a human existence for Palestinian refugees in the camps of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, and their right to return according to UN Resolution 194.

And this was their motive, their initiative, and their continuous struggle. They were the ones who ignited the revolution: Yasser Arafat, Khalil al-Wazir, Salah Khalaf, George Habash, Talat Yaqoub, Abu al-Abbas, Abdul Wahab al-Kayyali, and dozens who fell along the way due to assassinations, or passed away due to old age. They were the ones who created the revolution and revived the Palestinian cause, before the issue moved from exile to the homeland as a result of the First Intifada in 1987, and the Oslo Accords in 1993.

The Peace Council, which failed from its first step and its first statement, recorded failure in achieving a practical step for the benefit of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip:

1- Stopping the continuous organized Israeli killing and assassination operations.

2- Stopping the continued deliberate Israeli destruction of all that remains in the Gaza Strip.

3- Opening the crossings and freedom of movement for entry and exit from the Gaza Strip.

4- Introducing essential and necessary aid, starting with food, clean water, and equipment and tools for removing rubble.

The colonial government, despite all it has done in the Gaza Strip, from killing tens of thousands, injuring twice that number, and destroying two-thirds of the buildings, facilities, and infrastructure of Gaza Strip institutions, and depriving it of schools, mosques, churches, residential buildings, streets, water wells, and workshops, is still working to continue removing life, and making the Gaza Strip unfit for human habitation and human life, with the aim of displacing and expelling the people of the Gaza Strip as it did in 1948 with the people of the first occupation areas: deliberate massacres, and pushing Palestinians towards refuge and migration.

Human Rights Watch, based on the legitimacy of UN Resolution 302, and its follow-up to what UNRWA does, rejected the statement of the so-called Peace Council, which lacks the spirit and goal of peace, and revealed its motives as an institution born from the ideas of President Trump, who announced its formation and heads it. So what will come out of it and from it for the afflicted people??.

The Peace Council's statement applies to the saying: "He came to apply kohl, but blinded her instead."