UN’s Palestinian aid agency UNWRA ‘at breaking point’ after $450m budget shortfall

Palestinian children gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

 "Chris Gunness, who was UNRWA’s spokesperson for 11 years until 2019, said donors who had defunded the agency were “guilty of complicity” in a “slow-motion massacre” by starvation: “There are 1.2 million people on UNRWA’s food distribution lists in Gaza who are slipping into starvation right now. By defunding UNRWA, the UK and other countries are also adding to regional instability.

“UNRWA educates 550,000 children in over 700 schools, in the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria as well as Gaza. UNRWA’s health clinics across the Middle East see 7 million patient visits a year. The agency gives food and cash to 2 million people in the most fragile communities across a region at war.

“If the UK government wants to promote regional stability as it claims, they should be increasing funding to UNRWA, not suspending it.” " 

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