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2022-01-01 International-UN-NGOs
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US pledges $99 million to Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA
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[IsraelTimes] Announcement follows previous $150 million donation in April as Biden looks to restore aid to debt-ridden UN body pilloried by Israel for perpetuating conflict.
The State Department’s Population, Refugee and Migration Bureau said on Twitter that the money to the UN Relief and Works Agency will "provide education, health care, and emergency relief to hundreds of thousands of Paleostinian children and families during a time of need."
In April, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
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...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....
’s administration announced that it would begin restoring funding to the Paleostinians via UNRWA, which aids Paleostinian refugees and their descendants, as Washington sought to restore ties with Ramallah following a freeze during the administration of former President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
There was no immediate comment on the funding announcement from Israeli officials. Israel’s previous government criticized the April announcement, but the current coalition has mostly refrained from breaking with the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan
 ...the gang of subgeniuses trying to pass themselves off as the adults in charge of the series of calamities characteristic of the administration of a mentally challenged geriatric case...
publicly.
Jerusalem has nonetheless long pushed for UNRWA’s closure, arguing that it helps perpetuate the conflict with the Paleostinians since it confers refugee status upon descendants of those originally displaced around the time of Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. The claim was echoed by Trump in his 2018 decision to stop funding the agency.
Pro-Israel advocates have also long criticized UNRWA for its textbooks, which they say promote incitement. Israeli monitoring groups have charged that UNRWA curricula promote violence and deny Israel’s right to exist.
In an open letter last week, UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini said perennial budget shortfalls had forced the agency to introduce austerity measures, stretching the level of aid it could offer Paleostinians to the limit.
"For close to a decade now, donor funding to the Agency has stagnated and remained below the amount needed to ensure the continuation of quality services. At the same time, the refugee population has continued to grow while poverty and vulnerabilities have skyrocketed. The financial crisis is of an existential nature," he said.
He added that the resumption of US funding was too little to make up for the deficit, with other donors pulling out.
In 2021, the agency had a budget of $806 million, more than half of which was earmarked for education.
The US announcement came two weeks after US and Paleostinian officials met virtually for the relaunching of the "US-Paleostinian Economic Dialogue," after a five-year hiatus.
The meeting saw participants pledge to "expand and deepen [US-Paleostinian] cooperation and coordination across a range of sectors," the State Department said.
Funding to UNRWA was discussed during a meeting earlier this month between US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
in Ramallah, a White House spokesperson said.
While Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is opposed to renewed peace negotiations with the Paleostinians, his government has pledged to strengthen the PA and its ailing economy. On Tuesday, Defense Minister Benny Gantz hosted Abbas at his home for an extraordinarily rare meeting.
Gantz’s office announced several "confidence-building measures" following the meeting.
These include approving the inclusion of 6,000 West Bank residents and 3,500 Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
residents on a humanitarian basis in the PA’s resident registration; advancing the transfer of NIS 100 million ($32.2 million) in tax payments; and adding 600 BMC (businessman card) approvals for senior Paleostinian businesspeople, as well as 500 permits for businesspeople with such approvals to enter Israel with their vehicles, and dozens of VIP permits for PA bigwigs. 
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