{"id":98750,"date":"2019-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/9324\/"},"modified":"2019-11-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:00:00","slug":"9324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/9324","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Chief Resigns amid Israel-US Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The head of the main UN agency for Palestinian refugees has resigned following alleged accusations of bias and abuses of authority.<\/div>\n<div>In a statement on Wednesday, the UN said Pierre Kr&auml;henb&uuml;hl had quitted with immediate effect his role as commissioner general at the refugee agency after an internal investigation found \u201cmanagement issues.\u201d\u009d<\/div>\n<div>Kr&auml;henb&uuml;hl handed in his resignation to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, amid extensive coverage of the allegations, just hours after he had agreed to step aside provisionally sometime earlier in the day.<\/div>\n<div>The problems at the agency are believed to have come to light following a wave of pressure by the US and Israel to end the agency&#8217;s mandate.<\/div>\n<div>The ad hominem campaign resulted in many donor countries, including Switzerland and Belgium, suspending funding to UNRWA.<\/div>\n<div>The US already cut its funding in 2018, bringing about a severe financial crisis which the agency, which provides support to 5.5 million Palestinian refugees, continues to struggle with.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the main UN agency for Palestinian refugees has resigned following alleged accusations of bias and abuses of authority. In a statement on Wednesday, the UN said Pierre Kr&auml;henb&uuml;hl had quitted with immediate effect his role as commissioner general at the refugee agency after an internal investigation found \u201cmanagement issues.\u201d\u009d Kr&auml;henb&uuml;hl handed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60367,"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-98750","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\/98750","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=98750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}