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UNRWA in the spotlight
Over the weekend, the United States officially halted funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees through March 2025 after President Joe Biden signed the government funding bill into law. The UN agency has been under scrutiny in Israel for some time but has garnered international attention since Oct. 7, Al-Monitor’s State Department correspondent Elizabeth Hagedorn tells the Al-Monitor Brief.
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