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THE United States decision to slash funding for the UN relief agency for Palestinians risks deep cuts to services that could “push the suffering in disastrous and unpredictable directions,” secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned yesterday.
The UNRWA agency faces a £360 million budget black hole, which was made worse by the US decision.
The US had been the largest UNRWA donor and announced in January that it would cut £45m this year. However, the agency said the true loss was about £215m as the US had initially promised a total of £260m.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
