The Arab League on Thursday urged donor states to fill in the large gap in the funding of UNRWA, the UN agency for “Palestinian refugees”.
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit warned that UNRWA's budget deficit "foreshadows a serious crisis that might hit the communities of Palestinian refugees in the agency's five areas of operations," the pan-Arab organization said in a statement quoted by the Xinhua news agency.
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