The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced the US administration for deciding to end all funding to UNRWA calling for international moves to confront what it described as the American tyranny.
In Twitter remarks Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that the US administration’s decision to cut off all funding for UNRWA and its rejection of the Palestinian right of return made it an enemy of the Palestinian people and the Arab and Muslim nations.
The US administration has decided recently to stop all funding it gives to the UN agency that provides assistance to millions of Palestinian refugees ending a decades-long policy of supporting it.
The move was pushed strongly by Jared Kushner president Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser on the Middle East as part of a plan to force Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to drop demands for the return of many refugees to their homeland.
Each year the state department transfers money by the end of September to UNRWA which provides aid to Palestinian refugees across the Middle East.
In January the state department released $65 million for the agency and announced it was withholding another $60 million that had already been allocated in a budget process for 2018. Recently Kushner and Mike Pompeo the secretary of state met and decided not to give that amount or any further money.
The administration also intends during the coming weeks to release announcement calling for a sharp reduction in the number of Palestinians recognized as refugees dropping it from more than five million including descendants to fewer than a tenth of that number or those still alive from when the agency was created seven decades ago according to US news reports.
