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| Trump administration cuts aid to Palestinians by more than half | Trump administration cuts aid to Palestinians by more than half |
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| The US will give a United Nations agency $60m in aid for Palestinians but will withhold another $65m “for future consideration.” | The US will give a United Nations agency $60m in aid for Palestinians but will withhold another $65m “for future consideration.” |
| US President Donald Trump had threatened to cut hundreds of millions in aid in order to force Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas into coming to the negotiating table to hash out a peace deal with Israel. | |
| "It is time other countries, some of them quite wealthy, step in and do their part to advance regional security and stability," an administration official told Reuters. | |
| The US has been the largest donor to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the organisation working in the region. | |
| In cutting the aid package, the administration appeared to be in line with Mr Trump's 2 January tweet in which he wrote that Palestinians were receiving "hundreds of millions of dollars" but gave the US "no appreciation or respect." | |
| One of the sticking points in the peace process has been the control of Jerusalem and last month, the US President broke with 70 years of diplomatic procedures and announced the US would recognise the holy city as the capital of Israel. | |
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