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Safa News Agency · 2015-01-26
In a Facebook post reported by Safa, economist Omar Shaban warns that the UN mechanism for reconstructing Gaza after the 2014 war is “about to die”, as international and local parties and the staff and consultants who promoted it begin to withdraw and UNRWA prepares to announce it lacks the funds to continue rent allowances for families whose homes were destroyed. He says the failure, long foreseeable, implicates every party involved – Norway as convener of the donors’ conference, the “fruitless” UN mechanism for monitoring construction materials and the national ministerial team that drew up the plan – and urges UN envoy Robert Serry, who designed it, to have the courage to declare it a failure before leaving his post.
In a Facebook post reported by Safa, economist Omar Shaban warns that the UN mechanism for reconstructing Gaza after the 2014 war is “about to die”, as international and local parties and the staff and consultants who promoted it begin to withdraw and UNRWA prepares to announce it lacks the funds t…