Date: July 18, 2026
The conference is being held amid the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, escalating aggression and settlement expansion, and attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause.
The conference will discuss ways to protect the refugee camps, strengthen the resilience of Palestinian refugees, and ensure the sustainability of UNRWA's mandate.
The Palestinian delegation will reaffirm President Mahmoud Abbas' vision for convening an international peace conference and implementing the two-State solution.
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The 115th session of the Conference of Supervisors of Palestinian Affairs in the Arab Host Countries will commence tomorrow morning, Sunday, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in Cairo. The conference will bring together delegations from the State of Palestine, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Syrian Arab Republic, and the Lebanese Republic, alongside representatives of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Dr. Ahmad Abu Holi, Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Head of the Department of Refugee Affairs, stated that the conference will discuss a number of issues related to the Palestinian cause, foremost among them the targeting of Palestinian refugee camps and ways to protect them. Discussions will also cover colonial settlement expansion, the separation wall, the silent annexation of Palestinian land, and ways to support the Palestinian people and strengthen their steadfastness in the face of the ongoing Israeli aggression and its policy of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement.
Abu Holi explained that the conference agenda allocates significant attention to the financial crisis facing UNRWA, as well as the political, operational, and institutional challenges confronting the Agency amid the systematic Israeli targeting of its UN mandate. The conference will also review the conditions of Palestinian refugees in the Arab host countries, the targeting and destruction of Palestinian refugee camps, particularly in the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank, in addition to discussing the issue of Jewish immigration to Palestine and its development.
He added that the conference will conclude by adopting a set of recommendations on the issues included in its agenda, which will be submitted to the Council of the League of Arab States at the ministerial level for adoption as Arab resolutions in support of the national rights of the Palestinian people.
Abu Holi stressed that the current session is being held under extremely dangerous and complex political and security circumstances, as the Israeli occupation continues its genocidal war, starvation campaign, siege, and widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip, while escalating its aggression in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, accelerating settlement expansion and annexation, and committing crimes of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement against the Palestinian people. These actions, he said, are part of attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause and impose new colonial realities on the ground, in flagrant violation of international law and international legitimacy resolutions.
He emphasized that the entire Palestinian national project is being subjected to a systematic liquidation campaign led by the far-right Israeli occupation government through undermining the two-State solution, fragmenting Palestinian territory, eliminating the refugee issue and their right of return, and targeting UNRWA as the international witness to the Nakba of the Palestinian people. He affirmed that these plans will not succeed in breaking the will of the Palestinian people or depriving them of their inalienable national rights.
Abu Holi noted that the Palestinian delegation will reaffirm during the conference President Mahmoud Abbas' vision calling for the convening of an international peace conference under the auspices of the United Nations and with broad international participation. The conference should lead to the implementation of international legitimacy resolutions, the end of the Israeli occupation, and the realization of the independent and sovereign State of Palestine on the June 4, 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, thereby ensuring security and stability in the region. The delegation will also stress the need to provide international protection for the Palestinian people, bring the genocidal war to an end, ensure the political and financial sustainability of UNRWA, and enable the Agency to continue fulfilling its UN mandate toward Palestine refugees until the implementation of UN General Assembly Resolution 194 and their return to their homes.
The official Palestinian delegation, headed by Dr. Abu Holi, includes: Anwar Hammad, Deputy Head of the Department of Refugee Affairs; Ambassador Muhannad Al-Aklouk, Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the League of Arab States; Dr. Rizq Al-Za'anin, First Counsellor at the Permanent Mission; Amir Daoud, Director General of Documentation and Publication at the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission; and Mr. Abdul Qader Qabaja, Director of Media at the Commission.
