{"id":54436,"date":"2024-07-13T16:13:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T06:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54436"},"modified":"2024-07-13T16:13:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T06:13:28","slug":"un-chief-pleads-for-palestinian-refugee-agency-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54436","title":{"rendered":"UN chief pleads for Palestinian refugee agency funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday pleaded for donors to fund the embattled UN agency for Palestinian refugees, warning there was no alternative despite Israeli criticism of the body.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At a pledging conference, Guterres warned that suffering Palestinians would lose a &#8220;critical lifeline&#8221; without the agency known as UNRWA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me be clear &#8212; there is no alternative to UNRWA,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just when we thought it couldn&#8217;t get any worse in Gaza &#8212; somehow, appallingly, civilians are being pushed into ever deeper circles of hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Philippe Lazzarini, the chief of UNRWA, said the agency will be unable to function beyond August without receiving more funding.<\/p>\n<p>A UN emergency appeal for $1.2 billion for the Palestinians by the end of the year, along with an appeal for neighboring countries, has received less than 20 percent of the funding it needs, Lazzarini said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday pleaded for donors to fund the embattled UN agency for Palestinian refugees, warning there was no alternative despite Israeli criticism of the body. At a pledging conference, Guterres warned that suffering Palestinians would lose a &#8220;critical lifeline&#8221; without the agency known as UNRWA. &#8220;Let me be clear &#8212; there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1972],"class_list":["post-54436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-un-chief-pleads-for-palestinian-refugee-agency-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54436","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=54436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54436\/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=54436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}