"The agency's administration is making intensive efforts to bring in funding to fill the deficit in its budget, but if it fails to do so, it will take measures to reduce its services within weeks," Adnan Abu Hasna, UNRWA's media advisor, told Xinhua.
Abu Hasna explained that these cuts will affect emergency programs, including distribution of emergency food for poor refugee families and payment of rent for thousands of families whose houses were demolished during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip in 2017.
The UNRWA was established by the UN General Assembly in 1949 to provide assistance and protection for some 5.4 million Palestinian refugees registered with the UNRWA across its five fields of operation.
The agency is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions and financial support has been outpaced by the growth in needs.
Its mission is to help Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip achieve their full human development potential, pending a just and lasting solution to their plight.
Meanwhile, Ahmed Abu Houli, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), demanded the UNRWA cancel measures of cutting its services by the end of this month and laying off 956 staff workers.
These measures will not address the financial crisis and will push the region into a state of instability, Abu Houli said in a press statement.
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