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Le Monde: “Israel”, UAE Working Together to Eliminate UNRWA

Le Monde: “Israel”, UAE Working Together to Eliminate UNRWA
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By Staff, Agencies 

French newspaper Le Monde revealed that “Israel” and the United Arab Emirates have been working together to eliminate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees [UNRWA] without solving the issue of Palestinian refugees.

According to Le Monde, this process has been underway since “Israel” and the UAE announced normalization in August.

According to the report, Emirati officials are weighing up a plan to gradually eliminate UNRWA, without making it conditional on a resolution of the refugee issue. This is despite the UAE having been a major funder of UNRWA in 2018 and 2019, along with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, to offset US President Donald Trump's halting of funds to the agency, which had brought it to the verge of bankruptcy.

The US had cut its contributions from $360m to $60m in 2018 and then down further to zero for 2019.
At the time, Pierre Krahenbuhl, then UNRWA's commissioner-general, had condemned the US withdrawal of funds.

"At stake is the dignity and human security of millions of Palestine refugees, in need of emergency food assistance and other support in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank and Gaza Strip," Krahenbuhl had said in a statement.

UNRWA was established 70 years ago to supply aid to Palestinian refugees and its mandate is renewed every three years.

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