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| UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA to pare down operations in Gaza | |
| 2018-06-20 | |
The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Paleostinian refugees was thrown into severe financial crisis after the United States cut $250 million from its budget. UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov told a Security Council meeting that UNRWA is "weeks away from painful cuts to its emergency assistance for Gazoo and elsewhere in the region." "In Gazoo, this would include a deferral of salaries to some of its workforce in July and the start of suspending core operations in August," he added. The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... on Monday will host a pledging conference for UNRWA in New York - the second such donors’ meeting in three months. In March, it raised $100 million for UNRWA during a conference in Rome but fell short of the $446 million needed to keep the agency afloat. The United States is the biggest single donor to UNRWA, which provides schools and health clinics to 5.3 million refugees in the Paleostinian territories, Jordan, Leb and Syria. The cuts to UNRWA services in Gazoo come amid warnings from the United Nations that the enclave is close to the brink of war after scores of Paleostinians were killed by Israeli fire during protests near the border fence with Israel. In January, President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s administration announced that it was reducing its contribution to the agency, arguing that UNRWA was in need of reform. | |
| Posted by:Fred |