Palestine Red Crescent denies rumors of replacing UNRWA in East Jerusalem

The Palestine Red Crescent Society denies false rumors published in the Hebrew media regarding the Society winning a tender conducted by the Israeli Ministry of Health to replace the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem.

The association affirms its firm position of absolute refusal to be an alternative to UNRWA, despite the fact that several parties have contacted the association to carry out some of the agency’s tasks or receive funds that were allocated to it. The most recent of these was the Israeli Ministry of Health’s attempt to hand over the association’s branch in Jerusalem, the Bab al-Zawiya clinic, which is affiliated with UNRWA, in exchange for financial support, which the association categorically rejected.