On Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Here and Now,” Director of Communications for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Juliette Touma responded to calls for fundamental changes within the organization by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
The UK, Italy, Finland, Canada, and Australia said they will halt UNRWA funds over allegations staff participated in terror attacks on Israel.
The campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis now says that as president he would not support the U.S. funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) despite previously voting against congressional measures that would have done that, providing an explanation to Breitbart News for his previous votes against the measures and his current position on the issue.
The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, warned Monday that Somalia stands on the “brink of famine” due to the worst drought in four decades.
Afghanistan, which claims it would collapse without assistance from its top international donor the United States, on Sunday pledged $1 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that provides assistance to Palestinian refugees while blasting President Donald Trump’s administration for suspending aid to the international body’s program.
The U.S.-Israel relationship has never been stronger than under the current leadership of President Donald Trump, according to Pastor John Hagee, founder and national director of Christians United for Israel (CUFI).
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration maintains that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees is a fundamentally flawed institution that is perpetuating the refugee crisis and thwarting any progress, a senior U.S. official told The Jerusalem Post.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner is pushing to get rid of the refugee status of millions of Palestinians as well as shut down the United Nations agency for so-called Palestinian refugees, which he said was “corrupt” and “unhelpful” for the peace process, according to emails written by Kushner and other members of the peace team that were obtained by Foreign Policy magazine.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is fueling “unrealistic” hopes of return after 70 years and is therefore helping keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict alive, Switzerland’s foreign minister said Thursday.
A Palestinian Authority spokesman said Wednesday a move by the United States to cut financial assistance in the Middle East amounts to a declaration of war.
