Rights Watch and Amnesty: There is no evidence that UNRWA employees participated in the Al-Aqsa flood. The British Action Aid Foundation described the decision to stop support as a “death sentence” for the Palestinians in Gaza and the region.

Akshaya Kumar, Crisis Advocacy Director at Human Rights Watch, says, “Although the signatory countries do not have the duties of an occupier that fall on the State of Israel, they are bound by international law agreements, specifically the Genocide Convention"