Ireland announced €20 million in funding for the UN’s relief agency for Palestinian refugees amid concerns it will be forced to halt operations following funding cuts. It comes as UNRWA chief Phillippe Lazzarini visits Dublin, a day after the Israeli Knesset passed a provisional reading to ban the agency from operating in occupied East Jerusalem. Ireland’s funding “will support UNRWA’s life-saving work in Gaza and help address UNRWA’s critical funding crisis, which jeopardises support to 5.9 million Palestinians across the region,” the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
