Miller: US considers UNRWA activities critical

The US supports the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said at a briefing, Report informs.

“We very much support the work that UNRWA does. We think it’s critical,” he said.

“So we have provided already in this fiscal year around $121 million to UNRWA. We are the largest donor, or historically every year have been the largest donor to UNRWA, in the world. We have remaining about 300,000 – a little more than 300,000 — in funds to – that we were planning to provide to UNRWA. That funding has been suspended,” he noted.