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US House of Representatives passes bill that will end humanitarian funding to UNRWA (until 2025)

Government funding deal includes ban on U.S. aid to UNRWA, a key relief agency in Gaza, until 2025, sources say

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/22/moral-failure-us-house-approves-bill-that-would-ban-unrwa-funding

The funding deal reached between Congress and the White House will include a ban on direct U.S. funding for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees until March 2025, sources say.

while sending more military funding and weapons to Israel

edit: edited title to be more accurate. Now this bill goes to the Senate. I think it will likely be passed, but just for the sake of accuracy this has not actually been passed yet.

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queermunist

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Meanwhile, all four of the nordics and Canada have reinstated funding.

We'll see if the US can keep the rest of its bloc in line I guess.

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