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Saturday, January 06, 2018

U.S. freezes grant to UNRWA

The United States administration froze a $125 million grant to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN’s agency for “Palestinian refugees”, which was supposed to be delivered on January 1, Channel 10 News reported on Friday, citing three Western diplomats.

The amount frozen is one-third of the annual funding the United States provides the organization, according to the report.

President Donald Trump is considering cutting this amount completely and could even increase the cut to $180 million, which would be half the total U.S. funding for UNRWA.

For years, UNRWA has been a target for criticism in light of Hamas's activity in its educational institutions and the use of its facilities by Palestinian Arab terrorist organizations in Gaza.

UNRWA was documented storing Hamas rockets and weapons "designed to kill Israeli citizens" in its schools, a fact which the UNRWA chief admitted himself.

More here

[Related: UNRWA Won’t Say How Many Palestinian ‘Refugees’ It Helps After Census Finds Gross Exaggeration]

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

He sits on the big button. We need to cut off all foreign aid to allies or not. Cut off all our intelligence investments and past plunders there of and get on with our home agenda. Let them all starve and war among themselves. Let Christians go save them with their missions and charities.

Anonymous said...

So, the program(s) funded by the largess of the U.S. taxpayer fail the audit. Reduce the funding and re-audit.