{"id":12719,"date":"2024-01-27T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=12719"},"modified":"2024-01-27T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T13:34:53","slug":"us-canada-suspend-unrwa-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/us-canada-suspend-unrwa-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Canada Suspend UNRWA Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees fired a number of its staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other militants on southern Israel, its director said Friday, prompting the United States \u2014 the agency\u2019s biggest donor \u2014 to temporarily halt its funding.<br \/>\nThe agency, known by its acronym UNRWA, has been the main agency providing aid for Gaza\u2019s population amid the humanitarian disaster caused by Israel\u2019s offensive against Hamas in Gaza triggered by the Oct. 7 attack. UNRWA officials did not comment on the impact that the U.S. halt in funding would have on its operations.<br \/>\nUNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said it terminated contracts with \u201cseveral\u201d employees and ordered an investigation after Israel provided information alleging they played a role in the attack. The U.S. State Department said there were allegations against 12 employees. UNRWA has 13,000 staffers in Gaza, almost all of them Palestinians, ranging from teachers in schools that the agency runs to doctors, medical staff and aid workers.<br \/>\nCanada is joining the United States in suspending funding for a UN agency that supports Palestinians, in response to allegations agency staff played a role in the Hamas attack on Israel last October.<br \/>\nOttawa has ordered a temporary pause on \u201cany additional funding\u201d for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees fired a number of its staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other militants on southern Israel, its director said Friday, prompting the United States \u2014 the agency\u2019s biggest donor \u2014 to temporarily halt its funding. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12721,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions\/12721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}