Trump Administration Pulls Funding For Flawed U.N. Relief and Works (UNRWA)

Mahmoud AbbasWASHINGTON – The United States announced it was halting funding for the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees Friday after declaring the organization was “irredeemably flawed.

Washington has long been the U.N. Relief and Works Agency’s (UNRWA) largest donor but is “no longer willing to shoulder the very disproportionate share of the burden,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.

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