US aid to Palestinians & UNRWA: A tool of extortion and blackmail?
The head of the UN agency that helps Palestinian refugees said on Monday that US plans to cut funding to the body was abrupt and harmful and risked destabilizing the Middle East.
The United States, by far the largest contributor to UNRWA, announced on Jan. 16 that Washington will withhold $65 million of $125 million that it had planned to send to UNRWA this year. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions from UN member states.
Palestinians responded to the American decision, saying that it proves the US administration's "complicity with the Israeli occupation by attempting to remove another permanent status issue off the table.
Why does Israel still occupy the Syrian Golan Heights?
Was Netanyahu visit to Oman a dramatic sign of warming ties?
Is Israel using settlements to colonize the rest of Palestine?
US Muslims slam House’s bill on criminalization of anti-Israel speech
VIDEO | Families of Israeli captives press for swap deal with Hamas
IRGC: Iran employed only 20% of its military resources to punish Israel
Explainer: What’s significance of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, renamed ‘Hind’s Hall’?
Chicago University joins Gaza campus protests
Iran slaps sanctions on US, UK individuals, entities for complicity in Israel’s crimes
Pro-Palestine campus movement in US signifies end of Zionist hegemony
VIDEO | US police use tear gas, rubber bullet against pro-Palestinian students
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
