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Tuesday, June 19, 2018
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018
UNRWA to scale down operations in Gaza amid budget crisis
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFacing a major funding shortfall, the UN Palestinian refugee agency is planning to defer payment of salaries and suspend some of its operations in Gaza, an official says.
The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees was thrown into severe financial crisis after the United States cut $250 million from its budget.
UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov tells a Security Council meeting that UNRWA is “weeks away from painful cuts to its emergency assistance for Gaza and elsewhere in the region.”
“In Gaza, this would include a deferral of salaries to some of its workforce in July and the start of suspending core operations in August,” he adds.
— AFP
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