The tragedy of more than 700,000 refugees began in 1948. With them began the story of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees.
12 countries, including the two most important supporters (the United States and Germany), suspended their funding to the agency. Israel accuses 12 of the agency's employees (numbering about 31,000) of participating in the October 7 attacks. Israel refuses their return because this destroys “the national homeland exclusively for the Jews.” It ends Israel itself.