That's not true though, the UNRWA is the organization that holds the list of people that Palestinians demand to be allowed into Israel. Despite that those peopl

That's not true though, the UNRWA is the organization that holds the list of people that Palestinians demand to be allowed into Israel. Despite that those people have little connection to Israel, they were not born there, and have never been there. All they have is some ancestor who lived there a long time ago. > I mean, if a humanitarian aid organization provided services to people but not to their children, that seems like it would be a pretty big problem, no? I'm baffled how you can think that providing services to children is a bad thing. At the very minimum they should hold two lists: Actual refugees and poor people who might need help. But worse, they are perpetuating permanent refugees - because it's against the UNRWA policy to pressure host countries to give citizenship to people who were born there, if those people are registered with the UNRWA. The country in turn is quite happy to let the UNRWA pay for services for them. The easiest way to understand this is to compare to the policies of the UNHCR. There are no permanent refugees with the UNHCR.