{"id":9414,"date":"2019-01-14T12:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T12:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohelet.org.il\/article\/is-unrwas-hereditary-refugee-status-for-palestinians-unique\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:40:50","slug":"is-unrwas-hereditary-refugee-status-for-palestinians-unique","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/is-unrwas-hereditary-refugee-status-for-palestinians-unique\/","title":{"rendered":"Is UNRWA\u2019s hereditary refugee status for Palestinians unique?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNRWA\u2019s claim that their hereditary refugee status for Palestinians is not unique is simply untrue. There is no parallel and no precedent, even in protracted conflict situations, for the manner in which UNRWA transfers the \u201cregistered refugee\u201d status, automatically, through the generations, while refusing to take any actions that would end this status. While UNHCR provides certain services on a case-by-case basis to the children of refugees, it does not make refugee status hereditary. This is one of many differences in UNRWA\u2019s treatment of its population from the general practices used by UNHCR. All these differences are designed by UNRWA to maximize the population counted as \u201cPalestine Refugees\u201d and perpetuate their status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><button><a href=\"https:\/\/en.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Background-paper-Is-UNRWAs-hereditary-refugee-status-for-Palestinians-unique.pdf\">Download the full paper<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNRWA\u2019s claim that their hereditary refugee status for Palestinians is not unique is simply untrue. There is no parallel and no precedent, even in protracted conflict situations, for the manner in which UNRWA transfers the \u201cregistered refugee\u201d status, automatically, through the generations, while refusing to take any actions that would end this status. While UNHCR [&hellip;]","protected":false},"featured_media":9415,"template":"","article-category":[525],"custom-tags":[632,593],"ppma_author":[69],"class_list":["post-9414","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article-category-publications","custom-tags-refugees","custom-tags-unrwa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is UNRWA\u2019s hereditary refugee status for Palestinians unique? - kohelet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/is-unrwas-hereditary-refugee-status-for-palestinians-unique\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is UNRWA\u2019s hereditary refugee status for Palestinians unique? - kohelet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UNRWA\u2019s claim that their hereditary refugee status for Palestinians is not unique is simply untrue. 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