PA Claims ‘Vicious U.S.-Israeli Campaign’ Targeting U.N. Palestinian ‘Refugee’ Agency

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The Times of Israel reports: The Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Affairs Ministry condemned a “vicious US-Israeli campaign” targeting the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency in a Friday statement, after an Israeli report that the US had frozen $125 million in aid to the organization.

“The current US-Israeli harmony aims to conclude final status issues including Jerusalem, land, borders and refugees from one side using the power of the occupation,” the PA Foreign Ministry said in a Friday statement, according to a translation from the official Wafa news outlet.

For its part, the US denied the Channel 10 report, saying a decision on UNWRA funding was still “under review.”

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