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As GOP Threaten To Freeze Or Suspend Aid To Palestinians, U.N. Says Gaza Needs $36 Million In Emergency Aid | In recent weeks, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) has been pushing legislation that would withhold funding from certain U.N. agencies that support the Palestinians if they succeed in their bid for membership in that body. While Ros-Lehtinen and many of her colleagues in Congress have been advocating for cutting funding for the U.N. and the Palestinians, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which is tasked with aiding Palestinian refugees, is requesting $36 million in emergency aid. UNRWA representatives warn that food aid for hundreds of thousands of people is threatened if more funding is not received, as well as “psycho-social support to 25,000 children.”