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CAIRO (Reuters) – Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump has decided to end funding for the US Palestinian refugee agency.
PHOTO: A Palestinian carries a sack of flour inside a relief distribution center of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip , September 4, 2018. REUTERS / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
"The US administration has begun to attack the Palestinian people and international law," Malki told a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo, summoned to discuss the issue.
Washington said last month that it had cut off all funding from UNRWA and last week Trump ordered that $ 25 million for Palestinian care in East Jerusalem hospitals be directed elsewhere as part of the program. an examination of the aid.
UNRWA is seeking to fill the $ 200 million shortfall caused by the cut in US aid and said it would target additional funding from the Gulf countries and European partners.
Washington's decision further increased tensions between Palestinian leaders and the Trump administration, which in December recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a measure criticized by the international community.
Report by John Davison; edited by Angus MacSwan
