{"id":98786,"date":"2021-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/11280\/"},"modified":"2021-02-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:00:00","slug":"11280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/11280","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Cuts Aid Budget to Palestine Refugees due to Funding Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">Leni Stenseth of Norway, Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), warned that the Agency is forced to reduce 10% of its budget for 2021 due to decreasing funds and the coronavirus pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">In the webinar, representatives of Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt expressed their firm rebuff of the Agency&#8217;s budget cut, which they said would seriously affect the Palestinian refugee communities across UNRWA&#8217;s fields of operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">The host countries called on the United Nations to increase its funding to UNRWA in order to help it maintain its vital services for nearly 6 million Palestinian refugees registered with the Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leni Stenseth of Norway, Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), warned that the Agency is forced to reduce 10% of its budget for 2021 due to decreasing funds and the coronavirus pandemic. In the webinar, representatives of Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63980,"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-98786","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\/98786","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=98786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}