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The UN and humanitarian partners in Afghanistan are seeking USD 1.3 billion to assist almost 16 million people in need of life-saving assistance as a result of decades of conflict, recurrent natural disasters and the added impact of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. The number of people targeted for assistance is over a six-fold increase compared to four years ago, when 2.3 million people were targeted for assistance, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. It is projected that nearly one in two children under the age of five will face acute malnutrition this year, he said on Monday. Hunger is soaring as people have lost their livelihoods, Dujarric said, noting that in 2021, nearly half of Afghanistan s population will need humanitarian assistance to survive.
The same negative policy [by the press and many purported human rights groups] extends to other major benefits that Israel has brought to the world, including scientific innovation, medical technology and life-saving intelligence. It goes against editorial agendas to report on the Jewish state in a positive light unless they can somehow twist a good story to turn it bad.
Under the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians in the 1990s, which created the Palestinian Authority (PA), it alone and not Israel, is responsible for their health care, including vaccinations. Nearly 150 UN members recognise Palestine as a state, yet these media and human rights bodies, displaying deplorably predictable bias, cannot bring themselves to allow it agency.
Wednesday, 13 January 2021, 8:27 am
The UN and humanitarian partners in Afghanistan
are seeking $1.3 billion to assist almost 16 million people
in need of life-saving assistance as a result of decades of
conflict, recurrent natural disasters, and the added impact
of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
The
number of people targeted
for assistance is over a six-fold increase compared to four
years ago, when 2.3 million people were targeted for
assistance, according
to Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN
Secretary-General.
The situation of children is
particularly worrying.
“It is projected that nearly
one in two children under the age of five will face acute