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Al-Quds Al-Arabi reveals UNRWA commissioner plan to liquidate the agency and hand its tasks to the Board of Peace

Jerusalem, Palestine ·

Sources told Al-Quds Al-Arabi of a plan led by Christian Saunders, the acting commissioner-general of UNRWA. It begins with dismissing thousands of staff in the West Bank and Gaza, in preparation for handing over the agency's tasks.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has provided services to Palestinian refugees since 1949.

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