The Recipe for Displacement: A Palestinian Crisis in Cooking Down The recent seizure of a UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) training center in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli authorities is the latest development in a long simmering crisis that threatens to boil over.
According to Christian Saunders, UNRWA's chief, Israel's actions are part of a broader effort to eliminate the agency and, with it, the Palestinian refugee issue.
The UNRWA was established in 1949 as a temporary response to the mass displacement of Palestinians during Israel's war of independence.