Dear Editor,
“Trump administration to end U.S. funding to U.N. program for Palestinian refugees“ Washington Post, August 30, 2018.
represents an inaccurate news item.
Following the US government decision to cut off $65 million from the annual $360 million US allocation to UNRWA, the pr firm working for UNRWA has issued continuing inaccurate memos that the US has cut off between 90% and 100% of its allocation to UNRWA. This overtstated UNRWA statement about the US cutback to UNRWA has infuenced the other 67 donor nations to UNRWA to continue and increase their aid to UNRWA, which operates on a budget of $1.2 billion. On June 20, international refugee day, UNRWA conducted a press conference in which the Palestnian refugee agency declared that they were bereft of funds, thanks to the total US cutback to UNRWA. The next day, the Center for Near East Policy Research contacted 44 UNRWA donors, all of whom confirmed that they were continuting their allocations,full force. Now UNRWA states once again that the US will cut all funding, despite the fact that US ambassador to the UN, Nicki Haley, clarified, once agaiin, in an August 28 public policy statement to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies that the precise amount that the US cut off from UNRWA was $65 million.
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