U.S. envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday slammed Arab and Islamic states for talking a lot about supporting the Palestinians but not giving more money to help, calling out countries like Egypt, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
Haley listed how much those countries, along with Algeria, Tunisia, Pakistan, Oman, Iran and Turkey, had given - or not given - to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which helps Palestinian refugees. Washington, long the biggest donor, cut its aid to $60 million from a promised $365 million this year.
“No group of countries is more generous with their words than the Palestinians’ Arab neighbors, and other OIC member states,” Haley told a U.N. Security Council meeting on the Middle East, citing the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
“But all of the words spoken here in New York do not feed, clothe, or educate a single Palestinian child. All they do is get the international community riled up,” she said.
Meanwhile
Israel will partially reopen the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Gaza, the Strip's only passage, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on a statement on Tuesday.
A statement by the Defense Ministry said that the crossing will only be partially opened because Hamas "has not put a complete end to terrorism, but is trying to maintain a low level of incendiary balloon launches and friction on the border fence."
