{"id":49843,"date":"2024-03-25T22:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49843"},"modified":"2024-03-25T22:02:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:02:54","slug":"un-agency-a-lifeline-of-hope-for-palestinian-refugees-says-guterres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49843","title":{"rendered":"UN agency a &#8216;lifeline of hope&#8217; for Palestinian refugees, says Guterres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Monday defended the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, describing it as a &#8220;lifeline of hope and dignity&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a visit to the Wihdat refugee camp in the Jordanian capital Amman, Guterres said it would be &#8220;cruel and incomprehensible&#8221; to halt UNRWA&#8217;s vital services to Palestinian refugees across the region.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come as the agency faces a financing crisis after several key donor countries cut off funding following Israeli accusations that several UNRWA staff in Gaza were involved in the October 7 Hamas attack.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the chief of the UN agency, Philippe Lazzarini, said that Israel had definitively barred it from making aid deliveries in northern Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest.<\/p>\n<p>The agency employs some 30,000 people across the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, providing healthcare, education and other basic services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Monday defended the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, describing it as a &#8220;lifeline of hope and dignity&#8221;. During a visit to the Wihdat refugee camp in the Jordanian capital Amman, Guterres said it would be &#8220;cruel and incomprehensible&#8221; to halt UNRWA&#8217;s vital services to Palestinian refugees across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[911],"class_list":["post-49843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-un-agency-a-lifeline-of-hope-for-palestinian-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}