Questions About Canadian Aid Getting to Gaza

Worries abound that CIDA is planning to pull its support from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

Published July 22, 2009

At the height of the conflict in Gaza earlier this year, the Canadian government announced $4 million in humanitarian aid, but six months later there has been little follow-up on its safe delivery, and there are rumours CIDA is looking to actually cut funding to the UN agency there.

On Jan. 7, amid few statements from the Canadian government about the ongoing conflict and brewing humanitarian crisis in...

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