Palestinian schools, health centres at risk if funding gap not plugged - UNRWA


  • World
  • Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018

FILE PHOTO: Palestinians pass by the gate of an UNRWA-run school in Nablus in the occupied West Bank August 13, 2018. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.N. agency that supports Palestinian refugees said schools and health centres 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 Monday.

"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.

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