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And while the agency has denied the allegations, it fired around two dozen of its employees as a result.
Last week, Israeli security forces raided an UNRWA health care center in East Jerusalem.
UNRWA still runs facilities in the occupied West Bank, but says that those schools and health care facilities will close down soon if their water and power are cut.
Emily Fang, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
China's record trade surplus for the last year shows how Beijing has successfully found new markets outside of the U.S.
declined by a fifth last year.
Chinese officials said the surplus showed how China was diversifying who it trades with.
But the surplus also shows how China remains reliant on exports to fuel its economic growth, and consumer demand inside China is still plateauing.
Its leaders want to move away from just manufacturing consumer goods to becoming a profitable global leader in high-tech goods and things like semiconductors and energy, while also tackling ongoing issues of debt among its local governments and property construction companies.
For more than three decades, contraceptive products had no tax on them in China because officials said the country was in the midst of family planning under the one-child policy that limited families to just one child.
That was back when Chinese leaders feared the country could not support a large population.
But they now have the opposite problem, a shrinking working age population.
In 2016, that one-child limit was raised to two children, and now it's three children as China contends with a falling birth rate.
Chinese state media have suggested that some of the revenue from the new 13% tax on contraceptives could go to funding policies that encourage families to have more children or defraying the cost of child care.
For more than three decades, contraceptive products had no tax on them in China because officials said the country was in the midst of family planning under the one-child policy that limited families to just one child.
That was back when Chinese leaders feared the country could not support a large population.