APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 07 April 2021. Palestinian teachers take part in a protest demanding their rights in front of the headquarters United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
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Protesters slammed the agency’s cuts to vital services, especially aid and employment. UNRWA is already suffering from a huge budget deficit that has forced it to scale back services to Palestinian refugees in recent years. The crisis worsened after the United States suspended its funding to UNRWA in 2018.
Protesters slammed the agency’s cuts to vital services, especially aid and employment. UNRWA is already suffering from a huge budget deficit that has forced it to scale back services to Palestinian refugees in recent years. The crisis worsened after the United States suspended its funding to UNRWA in 2018.
The UN agency provides education, health and welfare services to millions of Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.
Palestinian refugees say that they have been suffering for more than seven decades because the world has failed to fulfill its obligations towards them as required by international law.
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