"Israel will strive to find an alternative to UNRWA the day after," a political source said ahead of cabinet meetings on Thursday about Gaza's future.
Dozens of Grad missiles 10 kilometers wide found under UNRWA crates in northern Gaza // IDF Spokesperson
However, at this stage, it is not yet known how long it will last, UNRWA will continue to be the entity managing civilian life in the Gaza Strip. "Right now they are doing positive work, perhaps for the first time in the organization's history," the official explained. "They are distributing food, water and medicine, and they are the only entity that knows how to do so at the moment," he said.
UNRWA center in Rafah, photo: AFP
On the other hand, regarding the long term, the senior Israeli official said: "UNRWA is the only refugee agency that has been passing on the status of refugees for the fifth generation. There is no other such thing. It perpetuates the conflict and therefore there must be an alternative."
Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, Photo: Yehuda Peretz
Illusions: neither a million nor 5,000
The political source clarified that Israel does not and does not act to refer the residents of Gaza to other places in the world. He defined the proposals of Ministers Smotrich, Ben-Gvir and Gamliel to promote voluntary immigration as "baseless illusions. Not a million or 5,000," he said.
According to the diplomatic source, "Even if it wanted to, Israel has no ability to make the residents of Gaza move to another country."
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