TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the U.S.’s decision to cut off any further financial aid to the “refugee perpetuating” agency UNRWA, which Israeli officials have said is the Trump Administration’s first step to closing it altogether.
TEL AVIV – The European Union on Saturday expressed its “regret” over the U.S. decision to defund the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, and while it pledged to continue to give aid it said the agency must reform the way it operates.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Friday it is cutting nearly $300 million in planned funding for the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees, and that it would no longer fund the agency after decades of support. Instead, it said it would seek other channels by which to aid the Palestinians.
The Times of Israel reports: Israel welcomed Saturday a US decision to end funding for the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), accusing the organization which supports some 5 million Palestinians of perpetuating the Middle East conflict.
US Jews were split Friday night over the Trump administration’s decision to cut all funding to the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency hours earlier, with left-leaning Jewish organizations calling UNRWA “deeply flawed” but arguing that stripping it of aid would endanger Israel and destabilize the region.
The Trump administration has decided to cancel all U.S. funding of the United Nations aid program for Palestinian refugees, part of its determination to put its money where its policy is as it seeks a recalculation of U.S. foreign aid spending and prepares its own Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.
TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday questioned the official number of Palestinians designated as refugees by the international body, and said that the agency for those refugees must undergo an overhaul if the U.S. was to continue to support it.
In a dramatic move vastly expanding previously announced foreign aid cuts, the Trump administration has reportedly decided to end all funding to UNRWA, the international body’s agency responsible for Palestinian humanitarian assistance.
TEL AVIV – Israeli officials have hailed President Donald Trump’s reported plan to formally reject the Palestinian “right of return” for millions of refugees and their descendants to Israel, as well as his order to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid money to the UN agency for those refugees.
TEL AVIV – A Palestinian Liberation Organization official slammed President Donald Trump’s alleged plan to formally renounce the Palestinian “right of return” for millions of refugees and their descendants to Israel on Sunday, describing it as “worthless nonsense.”
TEL AVIV – The Trump Administration is set to formally reject the Palestinian demand for a “right of return” for millions of refugees and their descendants to Israel, an Israeli TV report said Saturday night.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump ordered that more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority be cut, a State Department official said on Friday.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon slammed the global body’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for proposing ways to “protect” Palestinians in Gaza from Israel, saying that the only protection they need was from their terrorist leaders.
Much of world has been indoctrinated to believe the Palestinian Arab refugee math that says 20,000 refugees from 1948 = 5.3 million refugees today.
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 – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed Arab states on Tuesday for paying “generous” lip service to the Palestinians while not actually giving them much in terms of aid money.
President Donald Trump’s Middle East team, led by Jared Kushner, made the right choice in dealing with Hamas-controlled Gaza.
With the US announcing cuts in aid money to the Palestinians, one might think the Palestinian Authority would try to cut expenses, but an invoice from a hotel stay by top Palestinian officials this month indicates the exact opposite.
The United Nations received pledges Thursday of nearly $100 million in new funding for the UN relief agency for Palestinians after the US slashed its aid, but it is still facing a nearly $350 million shortfall this year.
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration will move ahead with projects in the Gaza Strip with or without the Palestinian Authority if its chairman Mahmoud Abbas continues to boycott the U.S., senior administration officials said Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Officials from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees will meet in Rome with world powers on Thursday in an urgent attempt to alleviate the crisis it faces after the U.S. withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in funding earlier this year.
Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon told Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow on Thursday that nearly all the chaos and instability in the Middle East is linked back to the Iranian regime.
TEL AVIV – Amid worsening relations with the Palestinians, the Trump administration is now considering rejecting the UN’s definition of Palestinian “refugees” and cutting off all financial aid to the agency that caters to them, an Israeli TV report said Tuesday.
Actors Hugh Grant and Viggo Mortensen are among more than 25 celebrities and public figures expressing “horror” over President Donald Trump’s decision to cut funding to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, an advocacy group said Thursday.
TEL AVIV – Amid fraying relations, the Trump administration is investigating an overhaul of the entire Palestinian aid budget, and not just settling itself with cuts to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, an Israeli news broadcaster reported Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is right in contemplating cutting aid to the “biased and racist” U.N. so-called Palestinian refugee agency that seeks to destroy Israel, a Kuwaiti columnist said Wednesday.
TEL AVIV — The Trump administration is for now withholding $45 million it pledged last month to the Palestinians as part of a “West Bank/Gaza Emergency Appeal” led by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees, the U.S. State Department told reporters on Thursday.
The Palestinians are “not serious in truly getting to peace” with Israel, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said in a Voice of America interview with Greta Van Susteren on Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian leadership has slammed the Trump administration over its suspension of $65 million in the first installment to the UN Palestinian refugee agency, charging that the U.S. is doing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bidding and dissolving the body gradually.
TEL AVIV — The Trump administration on Tuesday informed the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees, that it is providing tens of millions of dollars less than its annual pledge to the agency.
