Crowded Palestinian refugee camps face grave threat of virus contagion

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Over 1.5 million Palestinian refugees live in crowded camps. FMTNews Palestine

A Palestinian child wearing a face mask plays outside his home in the Shati refugee camp, west Gaza City.

Nearly a third of those refugees live in 58 UNRWA-registered camps across the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. UNRWA has faced budget difficulties for years amid donor fatigue and other conflicts in Syria and Yemen. But its financial troubles escalated after 2018, when the United States, its largest donor, halted its annual aid of US$360 million.

The crisis comes “while UNRWA is facing the most severe financial crisis in its history,” spokeswoman Tamara Alrifai told Reuters at the agency’s headquarters in Amman.

 

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