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During the recent 73rd session of the U.N. General Assembly, while much of the content focused on the words of speakers in the plenum, the real action took place on the sidelines. While Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was slamming Israel and the United States at the podium, representatives of UNRWA were outside, raising money from the Europeans and others to fill the fiscal void left after the Trump administration pulled $300 million from its annual funding.
Defunded by US, an unreformed UNRWA finds European support
While mainly European countries step in to fill the funding gap caused by the Trump administration cuts, experts are calling for significant reforms to UNRWA to end the decades of mismanagement, dependency and incitement that has helped to perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
