BRUSSELS: The European Union says it’s offering an extra 40 million euros ($46 million) to the UN Palestinian refugee agency to help educate children and provide health care in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The EU move announced Friday is intended to help fill a $217 million budget short-fall left after the United States effectively ended its $350 million contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
The deficit led to the elimination of 113 jobs and 584 staff positions being converted to part-time. UNWRA’s Gaza employees went on strike Monday to protest pay cuts and dismissals.
The agency serves millions of Palestinians who fled or were forced from homes in the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, and their descendants.
Israel accuses UNWRA of perpetuating the refugee crisis.
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EU offers an extra $46 million to Palestinian refugee agency
EU offers an extra $46 million to Palestinian refugee agency
- The EU move announced Friday is intended to help fill a $217 million budget short-fall left after the United States effectively ended its $350 million contribution to UNWRA.
- UNWRA’s Gaza employees went on strike Monday to protest pay cuts and dismissals.
Maduro says he is ‘doing well’ in US jail: son
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CARACAS: Deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro claimed he was “doing well” in a US jail as he and his wife Cilia Flores await trial, the ex-leader’s son said in a video Saturday.
“We are doing well. We are fighters,” Maduro’s son, lawmaker Nicolas Maduro Guerra, quoted him as saying. Maduro Guerra spoke in a video released by the ruling PSUV party.
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