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UNRWA warns of collapse as Norway, EU and UK announce pledges for Palestinian aid and reconstruction planning
Summary
The U.N. agency for Palestine refugees told conference delegates that Gaza faces mass starvation and that UNRWA risks collapse; Norway, the European Union and the United Kingdom announced new funding and donor coordination to support Palestinian institutions and reconstruction planning.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) told ministers at the New York conference that its operations and Gaza's civilian population are in acute peril and called for immediate action to avert further humanitarian catastrophe.
"As this conference takes place, life is being extinguished in Gaza," the UNRWA representative told the session, describing frontline workers as "walking corpses" and saying the agency faces a $200,000,000 shortfall. The statement said the agency's schools and health facilities provide vital public services that cannot easily be substituted and warned that the collapse of UNRWA would…
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