The obviously staged rally features kids holding signs in English and chanting "Free Free Palestine" in English as well.
The kids look happy. Maybe UNRWA closed their school to make the demonstration look more impressive.
During the protest, Nasser Sharaya, director of a PLO-linked Palestinian "refugee" organization, told Anadolu Agency, “We are here today to raise our voice in rejection of the decision that affects every Palestinian refugee, whether in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, or the diaspora.”
He added, "This decision means an attempt to liquidate the refugee issue. UNRWA was established by a UN decision as a result of the Nakba (in 1948), and it can only end with the end of the refugee issue and the return of all refugees to their lands."
Of course, that was never the UN's intention when it created UNRWA. The purpose was to help refugees temporarily.
Sharaya warned that "today the right of return is threatened and the refugee issue is at stake."
While UNRWA was not officially associated with the demonstration, it seems highly likely that the agency was behind it. The kids are waving brand new UN flags, where else would they get them from?
So much for UNRWA pretending to be non-political.
