Israel wants to dismantle the agency. The U.S. has halted funding. But its capacity is essential to saving lives.
Led by the U.S., Germany and U.K., a number of Western nations and their allies suspended their crucial funding to UNRWA.
The latest outrage is the Biden administration’s decision to cut existential funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency.
[W]hy not invest effort now in saving Lebanon, instead of saving an organization whose sole reason for existence is in doubt?
[T]he nations of the world have issued their final say on the matter: UNRWA remains standing.
The fact that the United States is ... turning its back so emphatically on the international legal order is ultimately harmful to everyone.
At the completion of Trump and Netanyahu’s attempt to settle the Palestine question ... the shimmering mirage of an independent Palestinian state ... will finally fade from the horizon.