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  Why does UNWRA exist
  
  UNRWA was initially created to help refugees, both Arab and Jewish, in Palestine after the 1948 war. In 1952 Israel took responsibility for the Jewish refugees, and UNRWA continued supporting the Palestinian Arab refugees. 
  UNCHR was created a few years after UNRWA and has a different mandate, mainly helping refugees resulting from WW2, and primarily focused on European refugees.
  Why wasn't UNCHR folded into UNRWA? I imagine it's because UNCHR was created with a different mandate, and UNRWA and UNCHR both facilitated different areas of need. 
  
  why do Palestinian inherit their refuge status?
  
  UNRWA has no mandate to re-settle Palestinian refugees, so unless UNCHR takes over(which does have a mandate to re-settle refugees) then the descendants of those 1946-48 refugees will be refugees themselves.
  Do you think multi-generational Rohingya in the Kutupalong refugee camps shouldn't be considered refugees? 
  I would say UNCHR not recognizing this(if that is indeed true) is a bigger problem than UNRWA recognizing the descendants of 1946-48 refugees as refugees themselves. 
  UNCHR does not have 103 million refugees, UNCHR estimates that 103 million people are forcibly displaced, worldwide. UNCHR's current mandate covers only 21.3 million refugees. 
  UNRWA's budget is 806 million(2020) while UNCHR's budget is 8.6 billion(2021)
  The Palestinian situation is unique, most refugees don't want to return to their homeland, because the situation is either too dire or they have better outcomes in other countries. 
  Palestinians do want to return to their homeland.
  I also imagine a big part of the continued support of UNRWA is the fact that the U.N. played a huge role in the 1948 war, and the resulting ethnic cleansing of 700,000 Palestinian Arabs. They tried to right a wrong by creating UNRWA, foolishly believing that the situation could be resolved in the somewhat near future.
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. >
  
  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 be. 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. >
  
  Video isn’t available in my country :( I think Kan 11 only makes their stuff available in Israel