From the Liveblog of
Thursday, March 15, 2018
In urgent search for cash, UN chief says agency prevents radicalization in Gaza
A US-induced half-billion-dollar funding shortfall for the UN relief agency for Palestinians risks cutting critical services that could “push the suffering in disastrous and unpredictable directions,” the UN chief warns.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tells an emergency funding conference in Rome that investment in UN programs addresses the despair and other factors “that lead to radicalization” among young Palestinians.
Guterres tells the conference, which was sponsored by Jordan, Egypt and Sweden, that cutting sanitation, health care and medical services in already poverty-wracked and conflict-ridden areas “would have severe impacts — a cascade of problems that could push the suffering in disastrous and unpredictable directions.”
— with AP
The Times of Israel Community.