{"id":99204,"date":"2018-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/7641\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:00:00","slug":"7641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/7641","title":{"rendered":"US Cuts Funding to Palestine Refugee Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The United States said it decided to cut all funding for the UN&#8217;s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA).<\/div>\n<div>The US State Department says described UNRWA as &#8220;irredeemably flawed&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>The US administration has &#8220;carefully reviewed&#8221; the issue and &#8220;will not make additional contributions to UNRWA,&#8221; spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.<\/div>\n<div>The latest move comes after the US announced back in January that it would withhold more than half of a tranche of funding for the agency.<\/div>\n<div>UNRWA was originally set up to take care of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Israeli war.<\/div>\n<div>The agency says it currently supports more than five million Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, including providing health care, education and social services.<\/div>\n<div>The US has been the largest single donor to Unrwa, providing $368m (\u00c2\u00a3284m) in 2016 and funding almost 30% of its operations in the region.<\/div>\n<div>Earlier this year, the US President Donald Trump threatened to cut aid to the Palestinians over what he called their unwillingness to negotiate with Israel.<\/div>\n<div>The US and Israel also disagree with UNRWA on which Palestinians are refugees with a right to return to the homes they fled following the 1948 war.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States said it decided to cut all funding for the UN&#8217;s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA). The US State Department says described UNRWA as &#8220;irredeemably flawed&#8221;. The US administration has &#8220;carefully reviewed&#8221; the issue and &#8220;will not make additional contributions to UNRWA,&#8221; spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. The latest move comes after the US announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57164,"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-99204","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\/99204","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=99204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}