Palestinian children, who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the back yard of a UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, on September 12, 2023 [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]

U.S. news media, including Politico and NPR, reported on Monday that Trump is expected to sign an executive order withdrawing from the two UN bodies on Tuesday-the same day the White House is set to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a longtime critic of the UN and UNRWA in particular.

Since beginning his second term on January 20, Trump has already withdrawn the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris Climate Agreement-both of which he also exited during his first term, though these decisions were later reversed by the Biden administration.

Trump’s decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council would not be unprecedented; he previously pulled the U.S. out of the council during his first term.
When the Trump administration quit the Human Rights Council in 2018, then-U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley claimed the move was due to the council’s “chronic bias” against Israel. The council is composed of 47 UN member states elected to four-year terms.

News Source- Al Jazeera

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