Inside Nir Barkat's plan to remove UNRWA from Jerusalem
A crackdown on illegal activities, revamping sanitation, and land confiscation: Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat goes to war.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat revealed on Thursday evening a detailed plan
of action he had devised to remove the UNRWA organization from Jerusalem
and to replace the services it provides with municipal services.
Since 1965, the organization has been responsible for some 20,000
"refugees" living in the Shuafat camp, who also bear Israeli identity
cards and are entitled to the National Insurance, Education and Health
Services of the State of Israel and the Jerusalem Municipality as
residents of Jerusalem.
In addition, the organization operates several schools and clinics in
several neighborhoods in East Jerusalem that operate without any Israeli
license.
In response to the US administration's recent decision to cut aid to
UNRWA, Barkat set up a special team of experts to examine UNRWA's
activities in Jerusalem and formulated a detailed plan of action to
remove the organization from the city and replace its services with
municipal services.
Barkat's decision was intended to blow up the lie of the "Palestinian
refugee problem," which he says is part of a propaganda mechanism
sponsored by the United Nations under the auspices of the United Nations
and aimed at destroying Israel by perpetuating the status of refugees
and a constant demand for a "right of return" to Israel. Implementation
of the plan will be coordinated with various government agencies.
The plan to eliminate UNRWA's Jerusalem presence will operate on many different fronts.
In the field of education, UNRWA has 1,800 students in seven schools
operating without a license from the Ministry of Education, and is a
central focus for incitement to terrorism and violence. In recent years,
the residents of Shuafat have raised serious complaints about the low
level of education in the schools of UNRWA is calling on Jerusalem
Municipality to issue closure orders for all UNRWA schools in Jerusalem
by the end of the current school year, and all students will be admitted
to municipal institutions from the next school year. In addition, the
municipality will promote the expropriation or lease of all UNRWA
education structures and their subsequent conversion to urban
structures.
The municipality will also work to establish an education center and
provide municipal services on an area of about 11 dunams near the
refugee camp, which will provide better quality municipal services to
residents than UNRWA.
In the health sector - UNRWA clinics in the Old City and the Shu'afat
refugee camp operate without a permit from the Ministry of Health and
are illegal. As part of the Barkat plan, the municipality will issue
closure orders to UNRWA medical centers by the Ministry of Health.
The municipality will also work with the Ministry of Health to take care
of sick fund patients in the immediate vicinity, while expropriation or
rental of the UNRWA clinic buildings will be completed and public
health services will be provided in the services complex next to the
Shuafat refugee camp.
In the area of welfare - there are now in the Shuafat refugee camp and
in Kafr Aqab, sports centers, women and children in need, and vocational
training. As part of the Barkat plan, the existing frameworks will
remain in place for the purpose of transferring them from UNRWA to the
welfare and employment services of the Jerusalem Municipality, while
allocating municipal welfare and employment services to the
municipality.
In terms of sanitation and infrastructure - garbage disposal and sewage
infrastructure are currently under the responsibility of UNRWA, and
residents have been complaining for years about UNRWA's poor cleaning
services and the fact that they do not properly maintain the old sewage
and drainage infrastructure. As part of the Barkat plan, responsibility
for these areas will be transferred to the municipality - advanced waste
collection infrastructures will be installed throughout the camp while
advanced tools and cleaning workers will be allocated through a private
contractor. And the old drainage will be carried out regularly by Gihon.
As for the UNRWA headquarters in Ammunition Hill, the municipality will
act to ensure that the political echelon will exercise its authority by
virtue of the historic agreements between the State of Israel and UNRWA,
to remove UNRWA from Israel's sovereign territory and to confiscate the
land that will be evacuated for public purposes.
Barkat said that "the American administration's decision creates a
window of opportunity for immediate and determined treatment of the
Palestinians' intentions to perpetuate the 'refugee problem' in
Jerusalem ... There are no refugees and no refugees, but only residents
and they will receive all the services from the Jerusalem Municipality,
like any other Jewish or Arab resident. It is possible to lie to the
refugees to create sovereignty within sovereignty.
"To stop this dangerous process, I have formulated a detailed plan of
action - every Jerusalem resident supported by UNRWA will receive all
services from the municipality, including education, welfare, health and
cleanliness. "The residents of Jerusalem cannot be turned into
Palestinian refugees in order to serve a dangerous strategy for the
destruction of Israel, and we will no longer be able to push the
residents into the arms of refugees, terror and incitement."
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