Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN refugee agency for Palestinians, has called for “political courage to defend and reinforce the multilateral system and the international rules-based order”, Al Jazeera reports.

In an article he wrote for The Guardian, he said the international community will have to choose between a world “where we have reneged on our commitment to provide a political answer to the question of Palestine”.

He called it “a dystopian world, where Israel, as the occupying power, is solely responsible for the population in the occupied Palestinian territory”.

Lazzarini stressed that in the other direction “lies a world where the guardrails of the rules-based order hold firm and the Palestinian question is resolved by political means”.

“This is the path currently being pursued by the global alliance for the implementation of the two-state solution,” the UNRWA chief added.

Lazzarini also stressed that Israel continued to claim that UNRWA is “infiltrated by Hamas, even though all allegations for which evidence has been offered have been thoroughly investigated”.

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