  {"id":313525,"date":"2025-12-04T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=313525"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:25:37","slug":"unrwa-statement-4dec25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-4dec25\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Commissioner-General: Palestine Refugees remain refugees because of the absence of a political solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4 December 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Palestine Refugees remain refugees because of the absence of a political solution.<\/p>\n<p>They are no exception.<\/p>\n<p>Other refugees across the world have also been waiting decades for a lasting political solution to their plight.<\/p>\n<p>Dismantling UNRWA will not address the refugee status of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>A political solution will.<\/p>\n<p>Investing in peace is the answer to end what was meant to be a temporary situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 4 December 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) Palestine Refugees remain refugees because of the absence of a political solution. They are no exception. Other refugees across the world have also been waiting decades for a lasting political solution to their plight. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-4dec25\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6978,1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2005,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-313525","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-social-media-post","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/313525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/313525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313526,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/313525\/revisions\/313526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=313525"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=313525"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=313525"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=313525"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=313525"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=313525"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=313525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}