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  Video isn’t available in my country :( I think Kan 11 only makes their stuff available in Israel
context: Unlike UNRWA, UNHCR has a specific mandate to assist refugees in eliminating their refugee status by local integration in the current country, resettlement in a third country or repatriation when possible.
  Palestinian refugees are unique in that they're defined by UNRWA as "persons whose regular place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict."  They later added descendants because they have records from the red cross and others from 1948 (and later the 6 day war) to show residency.  
  UNWRA - no Statute.  Technically it's a temporary program whose mandate and charter gets rewritten every three years.
  UNCHR - has Statute. Charter doesn't change. >
  
  Video isn’t available in my country :( I think Kan 11 only makes their stuff available in Israel >
  
  I think because the UNWRA was established before the UNCHR so it basically is a legacy organization and if you ask me it should be abolished and it's mission absorbed into the UNCHR.
  From what I can tell, the inheritance of refugee status is unique to Palestinians and it's partly because Arab states like Jordan don't want to have to give ethnic Palestinians citizenship when any other refugee group's children would.  In some ways its responsible for the ongoing crisis. I mean the Jews that were expelled from the Arab states and fled to Israel didn't keep their Iraqi, Jordanian, Iranian/etc., citizenship, they became Israeli.
  I know the situation is complicated and there are a lot of passions on both sides, but yeah it just seems like its a fluke of the UN having been so new and Arab states not wanting the Palestinians to be citizens of their states as a way to force a settlement they think will be better for them. >
  
  Well, essentially guilt and the public eye and religion and trying to Do The Right Thing and have you noticed that humans are a little nuts and a little paranoid, and then there's all these religious sites and the visitors don't play well....etc.
  IMHO, ymmv,fwiw >
  
  Unlike UNRWA, UNHCR has a specific mandate to assist refugees in eliminating their refugee status by local integration in the current country, resettlement in a third country or repatriation when possible.
  Palestinian refugees are unique in that they're defined by UNRWA as "persons whose regular place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict."  They later added descendants because they have records from the red cross and others from 1948 (and later the 6 day war) to show residency.  
  UNWRA - no Statute.  Technically it's a temporary program whose mandate and charter gets rewritten every three years.
  UNCHR - has Statute. Charter doesn't change.