Cancer patients, young students and families are among the 250,000 Palestinians – 80 per cent already living under the poverty line – who could lose access to lifesaving services in Lebanon by March amid looming funding cuts, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, country director told UN News on Tuesday.
"The agency will no longer have funding as of the end of February, so that means our operations would come to a halt during March," said Dorothee Klaus, UNRWA Director in Lebanon, describing the "severe impact" of fresh budget cuts.
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