Posted on 01/17/2018 12:39:50 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Gaza - The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, the main body providing aid to millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants across the Middle East, made an urgent appeal for international support Wednesday, one day after the State Department announced it will withhold more than half its annual funding.
“After decades of generous support, dramatic reduction of US funding to UNRWA results in most critical financial situation in history of Agency,” the agency’s commissioner general, Pierre Krähenbühl, wrote on Twitter. “I call on member states of the United Nations to take a stand & demonstrate to Palestine Refugees that their rights & future matter.”
In the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, 42-year-old Ahmed Al-Assar said his family of eight has been receiving aid from UNRWA for almost 12 years.
“I work part-time in construction, but that is not enough to cover all my expenses,” he said Wednesday. “Any reduction of aid would be a death sentence for refugees in Gaza. The work is almost nonexistent. There are not enough jobs. Those who work for the Palestinian Authority receive only a stipend, and Hamas employees get a quarter of their salary.”
Another camp resident, Zahia Mekdad, described the aid cut as “a purely political decision” that would hurt only ordinary people.
“There has already been a reduction of aid in recent years,” she said. “If it is reduced more, it is the women, children and young people who will suffer, not the politicians.”
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Call Bezos for money. He gives his away for illegals, what’s more terrorist refugees..
Tell them to go crying to some Muslim-loving country.
Money went to leaders and guns.
Here's a thought: why not feed the women and children and let the politico's starve?
If your country depends upon funding from other countries, then you ain't a country. Should have taken the cash given and built up a worthwhile society.
Their oil-rich Arab brethren won’t help?........................
And pensions to suicide bombers.
“I work part-time in construction, but that is not enough to cover all my expenses,” he said Wednesday. “Any reduction of aid would be a death sentence for refugees in Gaza. The work is almost nonexistent. There are not enough jobs. Those who work for the Palestinian Authority receive only a stipend, and Hamas employees get a quarter of their salary.”
Hey, Amhed, maybe you should have kept it in your pants.
Go sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here.
Palestine’s GDP is $3000 per resident per year.
They would do well to focus on being actually productive, rather than devoted to the abject destruction of their neighbor - who is focusing on being actually productive, and doing a remarkably good job of it despite living in a freakin’ desert.
I guess those lifetime payments for suicide bombers is going to be gone next month.
That’s a shame.
Sucks to be them.
I guess continuing to advocate for the death of every Jewish Israeli for over 50 years didn’t buy much when it came to solid U. S. decisions about foreign aid in 2018.
Who could have guessed?
Hack, patooey!
All RIGHT! DEATH to the scummy UN! Fumigate the building!
In the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, 42-year-old Ahmed Al-Assar said his family of eight has been receiving aid from UNRWA for almost 12 years.
Quite having children if you can’t afford them.
Wait...What!?
...Never mind...
“I work part-time in construction, but that is not enough to cover all my expenses,” he said Wednesday. “Any reduction of aid would be a death sentence for refugees in Gaza. The work is almost nonexistent. There are not enough jobs
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The joys and fruits of living in a 7th century Islamic paradise, were murdering Jews is the number one industry; or the scam finally come to a screeching halt.
It is simply unconscionable that the US is driving poor Palestinians to the brink of getting jobs.
Racists!
that would hurt only ordinary people...... Since there is no such thing as a Palestinian, what would an ordinary one be? One who hasn’t blown himself up YET?
Wasn’t there a recent report that UNRWA over reports the number of refugees by like 99% ?
We should have reduced our aid by 99% instead of 50%
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