US Ambassador Is ‘Endorsing’ a ‘Greater Israel,’ UNRWA Chief Says

After two consecutive terms as the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, better known as UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini’s tenure at the agency is coming to an end. The outgoing Commissioner-General joins Mehdi to reflect on the organization he leaves behind, the current reality in Palestine as it’s overshadowed by the war in Iran, and the ways in which Israel has attacked UNRWA and how it can survive.

From settler violence in the occupied West Bank to what Lazzarini describes as a “cease-fire by name” in occupied Gaza, the UNRWA official remarks on the headlines not making the front page because of the war on Iran. “Life there is still extraordinarily miserable,” he tells Mehdi.

The two discussed US Ambassador to Israel’s endorsement of the vision for a ‘greater Israel’, the ‘de facto annexation’ of the occupied West Bank, Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’, and the survival of UNRWA in this wide-ranging interview.

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