@Akshay @40Years Yes, the conflict always was going to require a political settlement, but UNRWA was designed to maintain pressure + create demographic realities in order to sustain and enhance “facts on the ground” that might shape a potential settlement that could only be resisted at increasingly brutal cost. Most wars that displace populations do resolve, with political settlements that are easier to reach, when in the usual case, most of the displaced do not return. 2/