Palestinian Schools, Health Centers at Risk if Funding Gap Not Plugged: UNRWA

Palestinian Schools, Health Centers at Risk if Funding Gap Not Plugged: UNRWA
Palestinians pass by the gate of an UNRWA-run school in Nablus in the West Bank, Aug. 13, 2018. Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters
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NEW YORKA U.N. agency that supports Palestinian refugees said schools and health centers are at risk if it is unable to plug a $185 million funding gap needed to keep operating until the end of the year, the agency’s head said on Sept. 24.

“Currently we have money in the bank ... will last I presume somewhere into ... mid October,” said Pierre Krahenbuhl, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in New York, where world leaders are attending the annual U.N. General Assembly.