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The authors detail the severe humanitarian impact of these actions in Gaza and the West Bank, noting that the culmination of this process was the passage of laws in October 2024 to ban UNRWA's operations in Israel and the occupied territories.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001747#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Israel has conducted a 'shadow war' against UNRWA that includes direct physical attacks, political and economic pressure, and an information campaign to damage the agency's reputation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001747#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In October 2024, the Knesset passed two laws intended to dismantle UNRWA: one banning its operation in Israel and another restricting its activities in occupied areas by prohibiting Israeli authorities from contacting the agency.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001747#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The physical toll on UNRWA personnel and infrastructure is unprecedented, with over 247 employees killed and nearly 600 Palestinians killed while seeking shelter in UNRWA schools.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001747#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Israel uses accusations of terrorism and antisemitism as a 'securitization' strategy to bypass legal and political constraints and justify the removal of UNRWA.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001747#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Palestinian school textbooks have served as a proxy for delegitimizing UNRWA, with the pro-Israeli organization Impact-se providing the majority of accusations regarding hate speech and violence.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001747#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The underlying motivation for dismantling UNRWA is the desire to eliminate the international recognition of the Palestinian right of return.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001747#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"UNRWA maintains strict neutrality mechanisms, including a 'Neutrality Review' of textbooks, but faces immense pressure from both Israel and Hamas, the latter of which has accused UNRWA of collaborating too closely with Israel.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001747#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":[],"geography_discussed":["Israel","Syria","Lebanon","Jordan"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["political analysis","humanitarian assessment","legal analysis"]},{"id":"prio-001797","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/prio-001797","title":"The futility of rights-based humanitarian aid to the Occupied Palestinian Territories","publisher":{"name":"Peace Research Institute Oslo","organization":"peace-research-institute-oslo"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/2f6efcb8-9862-4f3f-9693-f8de1b67273c/The futility of rightsbased humanitarian aid to the Occupied Palestinian Territories.pdf?inline=true","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The research examines Norwegian humanitarian aid in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, specifically in health and education. It finds that while NGOs implement RBA principles at a project level, the approach fails to address root causes because the primary duty-bearer, Israel, is hostile to these goals and the donor state, Norway, prioritizes foreign policy and diplomatic relations over a forceful rights-based agenda. This results in aid that provides temporary relief but may inadvertently facilitate the occupation by relieving Israel of its legal responsibilities.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001797#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Norwegian humanitarian NGOs (NCA, NRC, and STC) integrate rights-based approach (RBA) principles into specific projects in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, focusing on empowerment and the identification of root causes of suffering.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001797#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Despite project-level success, RBA fails to achieve long-term structural change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories because the main duty-bearer, Israel, is indifferent or hostile to the work, and the donor state, Norway, prioritizes its foreign policy over the rights-based agenda.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001797#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The application of RBA in the Palestinian context creates a dilemma for NGOs who must balance their commitment to human rights advocacy with the need to maintain access to the field, often leading them to avoid public campaigns that would stigmatize the Israeli government.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001797#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"International aid to the Occupied Palestinian Territories may inadvertently sustain the occupation by relieving Israel of its legal obligations under the Geneva Conventions to provide welfare, health, and education to the occupied population.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001797#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Norway's desire to maintain its image as a 'peace superpower' and a friend to both Israel and Palestine dampens the implementation of a forceful rights-based policy.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001797#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Political imperatives have occasionally led Norway to sacrifice the rights of beneficiaries for strategic goals, such as when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs discouraged support for the public-education system in Gaza to politically undermine Hamas.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001797#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":[],"geography_discussed":["Norway","Israel","Gaza Strip"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["case study","qualitative analysis"]}]}