Condemnation greets US cut to Palestinian refugee aid


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“What we’re seeing right now is a capricious move that has a very high risk of unsettling the region,” Harden said, noting that the relief agency supported about 5 million refugees.


Girls sit inside a classroom at an UNRWA school during the first day of a new school year in Gaza City this week.

Girls sit inside a classroom at an UNRWA school during the first day of a new school year in Gaza City this week.


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Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said the cuts could destabilise refugee camps not only in the West Bank and Gaza, but also in Jordan and Lebanon.


“If you deprive people of their education, their health — their future — this is extremely serious and dangerous,” she said. “Who is going to step in? If you want to hand them over to the religious schools, to Hamas, then you have to live with the consequences.”


UN Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA, currently provides aid mostly in the form of education, healthcare, food security and other essentials, to some 800,000 Palestinians registered as refugees in the West Bank and 1.3 million people in the Gaza Strip, as well as 534,000 in Syria, 464,000 in Lebanon and 2 million in Jordan.


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