Zionist Trump Cuts Humanitarian Aid to Palestinian Refugees
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Palestinian students in an UNRWA school classroom in Gaza City, Jan. 22, 2018.(MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2018, pp. 12-13
Two Views
Without UNRWA I Wouldn’t Be Alive Today
By Mohamed Mohamed
IT IS REGRETTABLE that the most basic human needs of millions of Palestinian refugees are now being used as a weapon in the Trump administration’s political assault on Palestinians.
On Jan. 16, the administration decided to withhold $65 million of a planned $125 million in U.S. funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
UNRWA was established in 1949 to provide direct relief and public works programs for the Palestinian refugees who were expelled after the creation of ...