UNITED NATIONS: Donors have pledged over $110 million to help some 5 million Palestinian refugees, an amount the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees called encouraging.
But Pierre Kraehenbuehl in an announcement Tuesday after a donor’s conference at UN headquarters said, however: “The situation does remain precarious.”
The $1.2 billion budget for the UN Relief and Works Agency provides education, health care, food and other services to refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well as Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
The Trump administration cut all funding for UNRWA this year.
Kraehenbuehl said the agency covered its expenses through May 30 but is now operating in deficit.
He expressed hope the $110 million will bridge UNRWA’s funding in coming months but said another pledging conference will be needed.
Donors pledge over $110 million to help Palestinian refugees
Donors pledge over $110 million to help Palestinian refugees
- The $1.2 billion budget for UNRWA provides education, health care, food and other services to Palestinian refugees
- The Trump administration cut all funding for UNRWA this year
Israeli settlers attack Palestinian Bedouin community near Jerusalem
- Al-Ma’azi community consists of approximately 40 families — about 200 people in total, 70 of whom are under the age of 18
- Members of the community are frequently attacked by settlers who want to seize its land to expand and connect nearby settlements
LONDON: Israeli settlers on Thursday attacked a Palestinian Bedouin community near the town of Jaba’ in the occupied West Bank, northeast of East Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Governorate said members of Al-Ma’azi community are frequently the targets of attacks by settlers who want to seize land in Jaba’ to expand their Adam settlement and connect it with the Binyamin settlement.
The community consists of approximately 40 families — about 200 people in total, 70 of whom are under the age of 18 — and they live in harsh conditions lacking necessities, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
Bedouins near Jerusalem face ongoing assaults by settlers and Israeli forces designed to displace Palestinians and expand settlements, Jerusalem Governorate said.
More than 33 Palestinian Bedouin communities have been displaced by Israeli authorities from 66 locations in the West Bank since late 2023, resulting in the forced transfer of 2,373 residents, according to officials figures from the Palestinian Authority.
Last week, 20 Palestinian families from the Shallal Al-Auja community moved from their homes north of Jericho to another area in the face of repeated attacks and threats by Israeli settlers.
