Pierre Krahenbuh, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, gives a press conference, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. Krahenbuh said the organization was able to keep all schools and health centers in camps around Lebanon last year despite funding cuts. (Hussein Malla/AP)BEIRUT — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says the group’s staff “will convene all our energy” to preserve all services through 2019 despite funding cuts. The United States, once the agency’s largest and most generous donor, withdrew its support for the agency in 2018. The U.N. agency assists 5.4 million registered Palestinian refugees across the Middle East.

Source: Washington Post February 13, 2019 17:26 UTC