UAE sharply cut funding for Palestinian refugees following normalization
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The United Arab Emirates sharply reduced its funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA in 2020 following the normalization deal with the occupation state.
The agency provides education, health care and other vital services to some 5.7 million registered Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, mainly descendants of over 700,000 Palestinians who were driven out of historic Palestine during the 1948 Nakba to create ‘Israel’.
The UAE donated $51.8 million to UNRWA in 2018 and again in 2019, but in 2020 it gave the agency just $1 million, agency spokesman Sami Mshasha said Friday, after it was first reported by Israeli media.
Last year, the UAE signed a normalization deal with the occupation state that was described as being just an announcement of hidden relations. The peace deal was signed although there was never any war between the gulf country and the occupation state.
