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Good morning, this is Michelle. Since Israel revealed serious allegations against UNRWA staffers, the UN Palestinian aid agency has been hanging by a thread after its main donors pulled support.

While some have started to reconsider, anti-UNRWA sentiment has escalated in US politics and could even affect other organisations also heavily reliant on funding from the United States.

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Michelle Langrand

15.03.2024


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Pierre Krähenbühl, UNRWA commissioner general (2014-2019) briefs the press on the agency’s challenges and prospects for 2019 at Palais des Nations, 29 January 2019. (UN/Violaine Martin)

US senators blast ICRC over links with UN Palestinian aid agency. The Geneva-based organisation has come under fire from lawmakers in the United States over the appointment of its director general Pierre Krähenbühl, who used to head the UN agency for Palestinians.

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