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U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians pays salaries, but crisis persists
Reuters ^ | December 2, 2020 | By Nidal al-Mughrabi

Posted on 12/02/2020 7:13:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

GAZA - The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees paid the salaries of 30,000 Palestinian staff across the Middle East for last month, but a funding shortfall may still hinder payment in December, officials said on Wednesday.

UNRWA finds itself in limbo after the U.S. election - President Donald Trump ended all U.S. payments, but while Palestinians hope President-elect Joe Biden’s administration will at least partially resume payments, that could take months.

The agency said last month it had run out of money to pay salaries after two years of funding cuts by the United States and other donors, including Arab Gulf states.

Adnan Abu Hasna, an UNRWA spokesman in Gaza, said the November salary payments were made possible only by a $20 million loan from the United Nations, $12 million in new pledges and an advance from Sweden on its 2021 contribution.

UNRWA provides education, health and relief services to around 5.7 million registered Palestinian refugees, including those in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; antizionism; israel; mideast; palestinians; uae; unitedarabemirates; unrwa; waronterror

1 posted on 12/02/2020 7:13:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another fundamentally inimical structure, that would not survive a second Trump Administration.

They are teetering on the edge of insolvency.


2 posted on 12/02/2020 7:20:44 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

What a nice thought!


3 posted on 12/02/2020 7:25:24 AM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another structure, fundamentally inimical to American interests and traditional values, that would not survive a second Trump Administration.

They are teetering on the edge of insolvency, and would be reformed or replaced under a comprehensive new deal, under Trump.

A Biden Administration will rush to their bailout.


4 posted on 12/02/2020 7:27:54 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

PLO and its Occupation of Israeli territory must be brought to an end. Any foreign money should stop propping up the terrorists and start repatriating them back to Arabia, Iraq, etc. Only thus can their murderous attacks be brought to a humanitarian conclusion. And, the EUroNazi and UnitedNazi funders and enablers of the Fakestinian Occupation and terrorist attacks should be prosecuted and imprisoned for their crimes (accomplices to murders, etc.)


5 posted on 12/02/2020 7:35:40 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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Probably includes salaries to terrorists and their families.

6 posted on 12/02/2020 7:39:16 AM PST by SJackson (Let me control the media and I will turn any nation into a herd of sheep, J. Goebbels)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I heard somewhere that if you total up the number of employees of all the pro-Palestinian organizations around the world, it’s greater than the population who claim to be Palestinian.


7 posted on 12/02/2020 8:00:16 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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Sudan-Israel ties in question; Hamas warns PA-Israeli’ cooperation harmful
TV7 Israel News 02.12.20
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Dec 2, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdSnBExWzVc


8 posted on 12/03/2020 11:54:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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