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UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned that will be forced suspend operations in Gaza and throughout the Middle East if funding is not renewed to the organization
UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned that will be forced suspend operations in Gaza and throughout the Middle East if funding is not renewed to the organization after 16 donor countries froze their financial contributions.
“If funding remains suspended, we will likely be forced to close our operations at the end of February, not only in the Gaza Strip, but throughout the region,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement.
In addition, he again called on countries to resume financial support for the agency.
The note regretted that 16 donor countries suspended funding to UNRWA after Israeli authorities on October 7 accused a dozen members of the UN agency of participating in Hamas attacks on Israel.
After these accusations, in which The Israeli did not provide evidence At the UN, UNRWA has fired the accused members and launched an investigation that could yield results in two to three weeks.
Several countries, including the United States, Japan, Germany and France, have suspended about $440 million in funding, the UN agency complained, citing the “enormous humanitarian needs of more than 2 million people in the Gaza Strip.”
“With the war in Gaza continuing unabated and the International Court of Justice calling for increased humanitarian assistance, now is the time to strengthen, not weaken, UNRWA.
“The agency remains the largest relief organization in one of the world’s most serious and complex humanitarian crises,” Lazzarini insisted.
UNRWA recalled that tens of thousands of people have been displaced south of the Gaza Strip over the past week, adding to the more than 1.4 million people who are overcrowded in Rafah, on the border with Egypt, where the majority live in “makeshift shelters.” structures” or in the open air.
In the Palestinian enclave, nearly two million people depend on UNRWA for their livelihoods as the agency runs overcrowded shelters, provides food and primary health care, among other things.
In addition to the Gaza Strip, the organization provides helping millions of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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