{"id":425086,"date":"2024-03-09T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T05:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=425086"},"modified":"2024-03-09T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T05:46:38","slug":"canada-lifting-freeze-on-unrwa-funding-after-weeks-of-protests-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/canada-lifting-freeze-on-unrwa-funding-after-weeks-of-protests-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada lifting freeze on UNRWA funding after weeks of protests, criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Montreal, Canada \u2013 <\/strong>Canada has announced it is lifting a freeze on funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), after facing fierce criticism for cutting assistance during Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, Canadian Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen said the government is \u201cresuming its funding to UNRWA so more can be done to respond to the urgent needs of Palestinian civilians\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Canada had joined the United States and several other countries in cutting funding to UNRWA in late January, after Israel accused about a dozen of the agency\u2019s more than 13,000 employees in Gaza of taking part in a Hamas attack on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>UNRWA immediately sacked the employees in question and announced that it was opening a probe into the allegations, which it described as \u201cshocking\u201d and \u201cserious\u201d. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also appointed an independent panel to investigate.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal, Canada \u2013 Canada has announced it is lifting a freeze on funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), after facing fierce criticism for cutting assistance during Israel\u2019s war in Gaza. In a statement on Friday, Canadian Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen said the government is \u201cresuming its funding to UNRWA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":425087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425088,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425086\/revisions\/425088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}