Head of UNRWA says PA at risk of anarchy, humanitarian crisis

BRUSSELS - The head of the UN relief agency in the Palestinian territories warned of the risk of a humanitarian and security crisis on Wednesday and urged European Union countries to give a chance to a new Hamas-led government.

Israel froze transfers of tax revenues to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority after Hamas won the Jan. 25 Palestinian election.

Karen AbuZayd, commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said she hoped the situation "will be corrected after the Israeli elections" on March 28.


The humanitarian crisis would become serious if salaries were not paid as a result of the Israel action, AbuZayd told Reuters after a three-day visit to Brussels.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/697507.html

This is no laughing matter for Palestinian children who will suffer as a result.

One candidate is quoted as saying
They don't use the word "transfer," but Benny Elon told me a long time ago: "We don't support 'transfer', but we'll make their lives so miserable here that they'll transfer themselves."

That is mainstream thinking. Making Palestinians miserable.

Exactly the point. Or it will at least make their lives so miserable that they will be kept poor and powerless (and also less likely to seek any kind of peace... but hey, does it matter to the Israeli leadership?)