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UNRWA Funding suspension
February 6 , 2024
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- The US and eight other Western countries, have decided to pause funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
- There are two million Palestinians in Gaza are dependent on UNRWA services.
- The US and eight other Western countries, which together provided more than half of UNRWA’s 2022 budget.
- UNRWA was founded in 1949 to provide aid to about 700,000 Palestinians who were forced to leave their homes in what is now Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
- UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions by donor states like the US.
- It also gets a limited subsidy from the UN, which is used only for administrative costs.
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