Ireland added the United States, Canada, Belgium, France and Italy to its list of countries where arrivals will be subject.
Earlier on Wednesday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the US was “pleased to announce that, working with Congress, we plan to restart US economic, development, and humanitarian assistance for the Palestinian people.”
Blinken explained that this included “$75 million in economic and development assistance in the West Bank and Gaza, $10 million for peacebuilding programs through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and $150 million in humanitarian assistance for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).”
Blinken stressed that the US was “resuming support for UNRWA’s services, including education for over 500,000 Palestinian boys and girls, thereby providing hope and stability in UNRWA’s five fields of operation in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Funding to UNRWA also pr
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Palestinians pass by the gate of an UNRWA-run school in Nablus in the West Bank, August 13, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Abed Omar Qusini.
We have seen many times before that UNRWA schools teach students to honor terror and terrorists. UNRWA usually responds that it uses the curriculum and textbooks from its host country, and has no choice in that matter but that it tries to modify the lessons in ways that are more consistent with UN and human rights principles.
This is a lie.
IMPACT-SE, the NGO that reviews textbooks in the Arab world, has found UNRWA school materials for use by students during times of emergencies, and they were distributed for students learning from home during the pandemic.