{"id":96445,"date":"2021-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/12606\/"},"modified":"2021-12-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T21:00:00","slug":"12606","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/12606","title":{"rendered":"Right Group Urges UNRWA to Reconsider Decision to Cut Aid for Palestinians of Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">The Palestinian Association for Human Rights (WITNESS) leveled heavy criticism at UNRWA and urged the Agency to backtrack on the new measures which they said would result in further despair for PRS.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">In a Monday statement, WITNESS said the new decision issued under the pretext of financial deficit will make the humanitarian situation of PRS families worse in the Lebanese territories, where the local currency has seen a dramatic crash amidst an unprecedented price leap and turbulent socio-economic situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">WITNESS said the majority of Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria are granted temporary visas of six months in Lebanon and are, therefore, denied access to the local labor market. Most of these families are also sheltered at rented houses or in substandard displacement camps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">The human rights group urged UNRWA to cancel the decision, seek further funds to the Agency, and pressurize the international community and donor parties to assume their responsibilities vis-&agrave;-vis the Palestinian refugee plight.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">It further called on the Agency to benefit from the influx of fresh money to provide better healthcare services for Palestinian refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palestinian Association for Human Rights (WITNESS) leveled heavy criticism at UNRWA and urged the Agency to backtrack on the new measures which they said would result in further despair for PRS.\u00c2\u00a0 In a Monday statement, WITNESS said the new decision issued under the pretext of financial deficit will make the humanitarian situation of PRS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-96445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}