UN agency seeks urgent support for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
The UNRWA said $87.5 million in new funding is needed to continue operations in crisis-ravaged Lebanon.
The United Nations is seeking $87.5 million from the international community to reach Palestinian refugees living in impoverished Lebanon.
The UN Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, provides food, cash assistance and other basic services to an estimated 5.7 million registered Palestinian refugees and their descendants in the Palestinian territories as well as in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
In Lebanon, more than 479,000 Palestinian refugees and their descendants are registered with UNRWA, just under half of whom live in the country’s 12 refugee camps. The decade-long war in neighboring Syria has also forced some 27,000 Palestinian refugees to flee Syria for Lebanon.
UNRWA’s latest appeal aims to “to ensure that thousands of Palestine refugees families live in dignity and that Palestinian children don’t lose their future,” Lebanon’s UN humanitarian coordinator, Najat Rochdi, said in a press briefing on Wednesday.
