Nadene Goldfoot
At the very least, it is estimated that 36,000 Palestinian refugees will need intensive care out of a total population of 224,901, which includes camp residents and Palestinian refugees from Syria, a statistic taken from the Committee's document. Given that the mortality risk is higher for those aged 70 and over, around 10,825 Palestinians are already vulnerable.
"The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday appealed for $1.6 billion to support its lifesaving work this year amid acute regional crises and chronic funding shortfalls. " "UNRWA provides services and programmes, including education, health and food assistance, to more than five million Palestinians across the Middle East."
The 2022 budget proposal includes additional emergency funding to address humanitarian needs arising from crises in:
1. Gaza-ruled by Ismail Haniyeh,
2. West Bank (Judea-Samaria)-ruled by Mahmoud Abbas
These two men have never agreed with each other and fight for single power. They haven't changed yet.
3. Syria--by President Bashar al-Assad-Bashar Hafez al-Assad who is a Syrian politician and the 19th president of Syria, since 17 July 2000- for the past 22 years. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the Secretary-General of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
COAR(an international association that acts as a global voice for the repository community.---COAR is an international association with 157 members and partners from around the world representing libraries, universities, research institutions, government funders and others.) says that Syria is already a failed state. "On 17 June, the U.S. Department of the Treasury officially enacted the sanctions contained in the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, thus beginning an inauspicious new phase of the long Syria conflict. The sanctions targeted 39 Syrian individuals, including President Bashar Al-Assad and his wife, Asma, in addition to members of the extended Al-Assad family, senior military leaders, and business executives. Many of the sanctioned individuals were already designated under existing U.S. sanctions."
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4. Lebanon--by President Michel Aoun. Michel Naim Aoun is a Lebanese politician and former military general who has served as the President of Lebanon since 31 October 2016-for the past 6 years, the new kid on the block. Lebanon and Israel through the USA just came to an agreement about a gas discovery in the sea.
Because the Israeli Ministry of the Interior has a policy of revoking Jerusalem IDs from Palestinians who do not have their ‘centre of life’ in Jerusalem, the camp has become a popular place of residence for Palestinians (non-refugees) with Jerusalem IDs who might not otherwise be able to afford the high living costs of Jerusalem.
The Palestinians of Gaza, Judea-Samaria and Israel have been without a country ever since they entered Palestine in the 1880's to work for the Jewish returnees to their homeland and were in the act of building up their home. The Palestinian Arabs were looking for jobs in building. At the time, anyone living in Palestine (named by Romans in 135 CE) were called Palestinians. 
Many of these Arab Palestinians came from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and many from farther places than that, all documented and verified in the book, FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL, by Joan Peters.
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Since the Arab attack on Jews at the announcement of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, all the Arabs attacked the Jewish Israelis, telling the Arab Palestinians what to do--to leave, and let them win the battle. Well, they were wrong. The Jews won, keeping their new state, and the Palestinian Arabs were led to live in refugee camps---now seemingly forever.
Since 1948, they have been fed and clothed by UNRWA- 74 years, the same age as Israel. What skills have they learned to support themselves? Make bombs, dig tunnels, What mindset have they given to their families? Sacrifice their children in the name of a future nationalism of their Palestine; hatred for Jews. That's what living in a refugee camp has done for most all of their people.
The number of Palestinian workers in Israel and Israeli settlements was an estimated 130,000 in 2019, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)—but is likely to be higher due to the number who cross into Israel without permits.[1] Most Palestinians work in Israel’s construction sector, where it is estimated that they make up 65-70 percent of the workforce.
The Israeli minister for construction and housing was quoted in the Israeli media explaining that the construction sector must continue as normal “to ensure that construction in Israel for the benefit of home buyers will not be affected, even in the current exceptional circumstances.” So in Israel, Palestinians are keeping the skills their ancestors came with, and using them. Still, Palestinian murderers keep on attacking Israelis at any given moment; the IDF being their most favored target. Are they among these with employment? Or are they coming in from other sources?
It's time, way past time for the Palestinian Arab refugees to be freed from just being on the dole of UNRA, treated as a child, and allowed to learn to be honest bread-winners and be able to support their own families by the sweat of their own brows. Such skills must be something that will help their population they live in, not killing or harming others. They need to learn that Jews are their cousins and not their enemy. They have so much to learn other than what they have picked up in UNRWA camps which have become political prisons spreading hate.
Israel took in the very same numbers of Jewish refugees that came streaming out of Arab countries in 1948, the birth of their re-born nation. They managed. It's time Lebanon and Syria and the other took back their own people by making them citizens and not of refugee status anymore. In being realistic, I realize that this is a bad time; these countries are barely able to hang on as a country themselves and are about to fold.
"In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly recommended that 2014 a year of solidarity with the Palestinian people and called on people around the world to recognize their “inalienable rights”.
Perhaps 2016 should become the Jewish year of solidarity with the Jewish refugees from Arab countries and there should be greater recognition, understanding and education of the inalienable rights of these people to rights and redress" but Israel took them all in, ready for them or not.
There are Palestinians in Israel who are citizens. In other Arab countries, they are refugees on the dole with UNRWA, a source of finance and control.
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh#:~:text=Ismail%20Abdel%20Salam%20Ahmed%20Haniyeh,Palestinian%20legislative%20elections%20of%202006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas#:~:text=Mahmoud%20Abbas%20(Arabic%3A%20%D9%85%D9%8E%D8%AD%D9%92%D9%85%D9%8F%D9%88%D8%AF%20%D8%B9%D9%8E%D8%A8%D9%8E%D9%91%D8%A7%D8%B3,and%20the%20Palestinian%20National%20Authority.
https://www.maccabeetaskforce.org/education/videos/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwy5maBhDdARIsAMxrkw1cCdZSL_Ih0rQ2Ti_ylmQFGtukCT_W_K79CB7m7G9Uom9ML63D-MgaAi5QEALw_wcB
https://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/west-bank/shufat-camp
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/sodastream-leaves-west-bank-as-ceo-says-boycott-antisemitic-and-pointless
https://merip.org/2020/05/palestinian-workers-in-israel-caught-between-indispensable-and-disposable/
https://israelforever.org/interact/blog/jewish_refugees_from_arab_countries/
JBS interview of Jason Greenblatt on "Conversations on Abraham Accord"
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