8-4-2015 U.N. Chief Appeals for More Aid to Support Palestinian Refugees - RICK GLADSTONE New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/world/middleeast/un-chief-appeals-for-more-aid-to-support-palestinian-refugees.html?mabReward=CTM&moduleDetail=recommendations-1&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations beseeched donors on Tuesday to fill an emergency $100 million gap in funding for the agency that aids five million Palestinian refugees in the Middle East. In a statement, Mr. Ban said the shortfall confronting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency was unprecedented and risked disrupting the education of a half-million children.

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