{"id":50113,"date":"2024-03-29T17:35:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50113"},"modified":"2024-03-29T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:35:32","slug":"japan-to-resume-funding-to-un-palestinian-refugee-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50113","title":{"rendered":"Japan to resume funding to UN Palestinian refugee agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Japan is preparing to resume funding to the UN&#8217;s crisis-hit Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), which coordinates nearly all aid to Gaza, the government said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once the sixth-largest contributor to the agency, Japan joined more than a dozen countries in pausing funding after Israel claimed that 12 of UNRWA&#8217;s 13,000 Gaza employees were involved in the deadly October 7 Hamas attack.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa met UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini in Tokyo on Thursday to discuss measures taken by the agency to strengthen governance and transparency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Japan and the UNRWA confirmed that they will advance final coordination about necessary efforts to resume Japan&#8217;s contribution,&#8221; the foreign ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese media reports said the resumption of funding, which was suspended in January, was expected to come in the first half of April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is preparing to resume funding to the UN&#8217;s crisis-hit Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), which coordinates nearly all aid to Gaza, the government said. Once the sixth-largest contributor to the agency, Japan joined more than a dozen countries in pausing funding after Israel claimed that 12 of UNRWA&#8217;s 13,000 Gaza employees were involved in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[967],"class_list":["post-50113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-japan-to-resume-funding-to-un-palestinian-refugee-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50113","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=50113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50113\/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=50113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}