UNRWA spokesman Sami Masha’a announced that the UAE has slashed its annual payments to UNRWA from $51.8 million in 2019 to only $1 million in 2020, a reduction of over 98%.
Palestinian media is claiming that this came as a result of pressure from the Trump administration. Perhaps, but the Abraham Accords were announced in August and the UAE didn't pay anything beyond the token amount all year.
It isn't only the UAE, though. The entire Arab world pledges very little to UNRWA - and pays even less. According to an expert in UNRWA, Essam Adwan, the Arab world pledges to pay only 7.8% of UNRWA's budget yet pays less than 5%.
Notably, "experts" keep insisting that the Arab world wholeheartedly supports Palestinians yet they always seem to overlook how little they actually do.
It is widely expected that the Biden administration will restore much or all of the $360 million that was cut from annual US payments to UNRWA but the bulk of aid now comes from European states.