US and Israeli attacks on the agency have caused severe budget shortfalls, leading to aid cuts at six refugee camps.

In the streets of Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, where alleyways are barely wide enough to walk through, and buildings crowd out the sky, 45-year-old Palestinian refugee Aziza Wahbeh measures the long hours of another day. There is the electricity that comes for only two hours a day, the water families must buy because none is supplied, the rising rent for cramped and aging homes…

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