Pakistan, seven other Muslim nations back U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees

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Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses successful  the Palestinian exile  campy  of Ein el-Hilweh, stitchery  successful  the backyard of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school, successful  the confederate  larboard  metropolis  of Sidon, Lebanon. File

Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses successful the Palestinian exile campy of Ein el-Hilweh, stitchery successful the backyard of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school, successful the confederate larboard metropolis of Sidon, Lebanon. File | Photo Credit: AP

Eight starring Muslim countries, including Pakistan, person expressed beardown enactment for the U.N. alleviation bureau for Palestinian refugees, saying its relation successful Gaza is "irreplaceable" amid an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

— Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) December 12, 2025

In a associated connection shared by Pakistan's Foreign Office connected Friday (December 12, 2025), the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reaffirmed “the indispensable relation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) successful the Near East successful safeguarding the rights and well-being of Palestinian refugees.”

They said that for decades, UNRWA has carried retired a unsocial mandate entrusted to it by the planetary community, providing protection, education, wellness care, societal services and exigency assistance to millions of Palestinian refugees successful its areas of operation.

“In airy of the unprecedented humanitarian situation successful the Gaza Strip, the Ministers underscore the indispensable relation UNRWA plays successful delivering humanitarian assistance done its web of organisation centres, ensuring that food, alleviation items and basal necessities scope those successful request reasonably and efficiently," the connection said.

The Ministers noted that the U.N. General Assembly’s determination to renew UNRWA's mandate for an further 3 years reflected planetary assurance successful the agency's captious relation and the continuity of its operations.

“UNRWA's schools and wellness facilities stay a lifeline for exile communities successful Gaza,” the connection said, underlining that UNRWA's relation is "irreplaceable".

"No different entity possesses the infrastructure, expertise, and tract beingness required to conscionable the needs of Palestinian refugees oregon to guarantee continuity of services astatine the indispensable scale,” the connection read.

The connection warned that immoderate weakening of the agency's capableness would person sedate humanitarian, societal and governmental repercussions crossed the region.

The Ministers besides condemned the storming of the UNRWA office successful the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, describing it arsenic a "flagrant violation" of planetary instrumentality and the "inviolability" of U.N. premises.

Published - December 13, 2025 11:36 americium IST

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