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UNWRA slashes assistance to Palestinians
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Looks like the Codependent is low on cash - reality hits hard on the Paleo welfare state. Might have to try to build an economy instead of burning and killing Joooos
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced on Thursday that it will have to slash assistance to more than half the Palestinians it helps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip because of severe budget shortfalls.
no bucks for boomers
Peter Hansen, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, told donors at a meeting in Amman, Jordan, that the lack of response to an emergency appeal for funds would result in the agency not meeting even half of the refugees’ needs. Last June, the agency appealed for emergency assistance of $103 million. However, only $38 million has been pledged, $31 million of that coming from the United States. As a result, food distribution, housing, education and health programs run by UNRWA will now be scaled back in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
what about Arafat’s cut? Is that being scaled back too? What of Suha? will she be condemned to move back? Oh! the humanity!
Poor thing's prob'ly wearing dresses from K-Mart by now...
According to Hansen, UNRWA was able to implement only 12% of its program aimed at providing shelter to thousands of Palestinians whose houses have been demolished by the IDF since the beginning of the current conflict.
no mention why they lost their houses?
He said that only 17% of the needed cash assistance for impoverished refugees has been distributed and only one fifth of remedial education had been delivered. A planned distribution of shoes and school uniforms to 70,000 refugee children had been cancelled. "Currently 60 per cent of our appeal is not funded. I think the international community must consider not only the humanitarian consequences of this, but also the psychological, social and political consequences of not meeting even half of the refugees’ needs," Hansen added. Since 1948, UNRWA has provided assistance to millions of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, including more than 1.5 million in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Allowing them to live in Paleo ghettos in the Territories, Lebanon (Ein el hellhole), Jordan

Which always reminds us to ask: Precisely how many Paleorefugees has UNRWA moved out of refugee status? Where, after 55 years, are they seeking refuge from?

Posted by: Frank G 2003-09-25
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=19089