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The United States has followed up on President Trump’s threat to cut off aid to Palestinian refugees in response to Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) refusal to come to the negotiating table. Earlier this year, after criticizing Pakistan for its alleged failure to counter terrorism, Trump aimed at PLO, tweeting, “It's not only Pakistan that we pay billions of dollars to for nothing, but also many other countries, and others. As an example, we pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect. They don’t even want to negotiate a long overdue... ...peace treaty with Israel. We have taken Jerusalem, the toughest part of the negotiation, off the table, but Israel, for that, would have had to pay more. But with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?”
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has received over $5 billion in US aid since 1994. In 2016, the US gave the agency over $368 million and financed more than 30 percent of its overall budget. UNRWA is entirely dependent on voluntary contributions from UN member states. U.S. made good on president Trump’s threat by announcing that it is disbursing $60 million aid to UNRWA while withholding another $65 million in response to Abbas’s defiance.
After the U.S. move was announced, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl said he would appeal to other donor nations for money and launch a global fundraising campaign aimed at keeping the agency, which according to the organization, supports around 2 million Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Krähenbühl said 525,000 boys and girls in 700 UNRWA schools could be affected by the fund cut, as well as Palestinian access to primary health care, but he pledged to keep facilities open through 2018 and beyond and added, “The reduced contribution also impacts regional security at a time when the Middle East faces multiple risks and threats, notably that of further radicalization".
UNRWA donors are set to meet on January 31st in Brussels in a meeting that would be chaired by Norway.
