Commissioner-General of UNRWA “Pierre Krenpol” assured that funding for UNRWA’s emergency appeal rate for Palestinians of Syria for 2015 amounted to a rate of only 27 %”.
He added that “the agency finds itself in an awkward situation, as it faces the most serious financial crisis ever, and a shortage of financing its key activities, such as providing schools for half a million children, to cover the 2015 with value of $ 101 million.”
Pierre Krenpol pointed out that the agency was forced to reduce the frequency and the amount of cash aid that is distributed to the refugees in Syria in cases of extreme exposure to risk.”
Commissioner-General of UNRWA “Pierre Krenpol”
He also noted that the Palestine refugees from Syria in Lebanon do not get shelter allowance which will reflect negatively on those families that do not have any mean to secure housing.
Commissioner-General of UNRWA “Pierre Krenpol” stated that isolation, exclusion, and denial of Palestine refugees of Syria, Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, and Lebanon represent a time bomb for the Middle East”.
It should be noted that UNRWA has recently taken a series of decisions in order to reduce its services, and to stop operating in five areas, which provoked a state of anger and resentment among the Palestinian refugees who constantly threatened to escalate the popular protest movements against the cuts policy followed by UNRWA.