Geneva: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has vowed to continue its work after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for it to be scrapped, reports Al Jazeera.

In a series of tweets on Sunday evening, a spokesperson for the UN agency said it would continue providing help to Palestinian refugees until the international community comes up with a solution for their plight.

“UNRWA is assigned by the General Assembly to continue its services until a fair solution to Palestinian refugees issue is reached,” UNRWA official Sami Mushasha noted.  His comments came shortly after Netanyahu called for the agency to be scrapped, accusing it of helping “fictitious refugees.

“UNRWA is an organisation that perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem and the narrative of the right-of-return, as it were, in order to eliminate the State of Israel,” the Israeli leader said, adding the development agency needed “to pass from the world”.