Qatar condemned Israel’s repeated targeting of displaced Palestinians and UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip, and called for continuing to provide them with various types of support.
This came in a statement by the State of Qatar, delivered by Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Mansouri, Second Secretary of the Permanent Delegation of Qatar to the United Nations Office in Geneva, during the 2025 annual pledging conference of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, according to the official Qatar News Agency (QNA).
The statement said that Qatar condemns “the aggression, attacks and heinous crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people, and their deliberate targeting of refugee and displaced persons camps, UNRWA schools and civilian facilities that shelter them in Gaza.”
He stressed that the continuation of these attacks will exacerbate crises, spread chaos and instability in the region, and expose it to more tensions that will have major regional and international repercussions.
Repeatedly, the occupation army deliberately targets shelter and displacement centers and UNRWA schools housing displaced persons, to inflict the largest number of victims, most of whom are children and women, according to previous statements by the government media office in Gaza.
Since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza, the Palestinians have been facing the suffering of repeated displacement, as the occupation army orders the people of residential areas and neighborhoods to evacuate them in preparation for bombing, destroying, and invading them.
Supporting the displaced and UNRWA
According to the statement, the State of Qatar called on the international community to continue providing various types of adequate support for humanitarian response plans and operations for Palestinian refugees and displaced persons to alleviate their suffering, and to continue providing more support to UNRWA.
It expressed its rejection of any attempts aimed at ending or reducing the agency’s role, stripping the Palestinians of their refugee status and liquidating their cause.
Alleging that its employees support the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), on October 28, the Israeli Knesset finally approved a ban on UNRWA activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.
On November 4, Israel informed the United Nations of the cancellation of the 1967 agreement regarding the work of UNRWA, which means banning its activities, if the resolution enters into force within 3 months.
With American support, since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a genocidal war in Gaza that left more than 149,000 Palestinians martyred and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly.