UN AGENCY SHUTS RELIEF AND DISTRIBUTION CENTRES AFTER PROTESTERS STORM GAZA COMPOUND

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UN AGENCY SHUTS RELIEF AND DISTRIBUTION CENTRES AFTER PROTESTERS STORM
GAZA COMPOUND
New York, Apr 4 2013 5:00PM
The United Nations agency which provides assistance and protection to
Palestinian refugees today said it is temporarily closing all relief
and distribution centres after demonstrators, angry about programme
cuts, stormed its Gaza office.

"The incident is a dramatic and disturbing escalation in a series of
demonstrations that have taken place over the past week," the UN
Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
(UNRWA) said in a <"http://unrwa.org/etemplate.php?id=1698">statement.

"These demonstrations affect our ability to provide much-needed
service to the Palestine refugees in Gaza and – because they also
targeted the Gaza headquarters building – our operations in the West
Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria."

Many of UNRWA's other facilities had already been shut down due to
demonstrations. With this additional protest, UNRWA said the safety of
its staff is of crucial concern, and that it would close all its
relief and distribution centres "until guarantees are given by all
relevant groups that UN operations can continue unhindered."

Today's breach followed an announcement by UNRWA that it would reduce
its cash assistance programme due to budget shortfalls.

The Director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza, Robert Turner, said that to
mitigate the effects of the reductions, the Agency had introduced and
expanded its Job Creation Programme to the poorest refugee families in
Gaza.

In addition, UNRWA's large-scale food distribution programme, with
over 800,000 beneficiaries, "will continue unchanged."

Mr. Turner said that while the Agency respects people's right to
peaceful demonstration, what happened today was "completely
unacceptable."

"The situation could very easily have resulted in serious injuries to
UNRWA staff and to the demonstrators. This escalation, apparently
pre-planned, was unwarranted and unprecedented."

UNRWA called on all the groups behind today's incident "to immediately
stop inciting crowds at these demonstrations and to conduct themselves
in a responsible manner."

It also called on authorities to play their role in providing security
and ensuring demonstrations remain peaceful, and encouraged donors to
continue to fund UNRWA's vital relief programmes.
Apr 4 2013 5:00PM
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