UN agency seeks urgent support for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Jan 19, 2022

NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images — The pharmacy of the Palestinian refugee camp of Borj al-Branjeh (UNRWA), in Beirut, Lebanon, is pictured Sept. 24, 2021. — NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images

The United Nations is seeking $87.5 million from the international community to reach Palestinian refugees living in impoverished Lebanon.

The UN Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, provides food, cash assistance and other basic services to an estimated 5.7 million registered Palestinian refugees and their descendants in the Palestinian territories as well as in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

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