WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (NNN-XINHUA) – U.S. President, Donald Trump, signed executive orders yesterday, to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, and stop funding for the UN Palestinian relief agency (UNRWA), local media reported, citing a White House official.
Also yesterday, Trump was scheduled to meet visiting Israeli regime Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has long criticised the UNRWA.
During Trump’s first term in Jun, 2018, the United States withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying that, it has rendered membership to unworthy nations and harboured “disproportionate focus and unending hostility towards Israel.”
However, in Feb, 2021, then U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said in a statement that the Biden administration would reengage with the council as an observer.
Since 1950, UNRWA has been assisting Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.– NNN-XINHUA
