The European Union supports UNRWA Preparedness and Response to COVID-19 in the occupied West Bank
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From the first months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, UNRWA mobile clinic doctor Khaled Ma’touq recalls the fear, confusion and panic that spread through the Palestine refugee community. UNRWA worked quickly to respond to new needs and provide services under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. UNRWA provided the best health services in the West Bank as a whole,” says Dr. Ma’touq. “We were - and are - committed to strict prevention measures even after our staff was vaccinated.”
These prevention measures and the continued provision of health services to Palestine refugees would not have been so successful without the generous support provided by the European Union (EU) to UNRWA during the first months of the COVID-19 outbreak. Steadfast EU support helped the Agency implement the emergency plan, which aimed to deliver services to all 19 Palestine refugee camps in
The Government of Italy has contributed EUR 6.8 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in.
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The Government of Japan today signed two contribution agreements, amounting to approximately US$ 40 million, with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
From the total contribution, US$ 30.2 million will enable UNRWA to continue providing critical and core services to Palestine refugees in all five fields of operations and another US$ 9.5 million approximately will be used to expand school blocks in Gaza, thus allowing more children to have access to quality education.
“I am very happy to announce that the Government of Japan is contributing approximately US$ 40 million to UNRWA. This contribution represents our determined commitment and solidarity to Palestine refugees at a time when the region continues to experience serious humanitarian crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic,” H.E. Ambassador Mr. MAGOSHI Masayuki, Representative of Japan to Palestine, said.
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Young Socialists banner on the a march in London in November 2017, one hundred years after the Balfour Declaration
THE HEAD of the Palestinian National Independent Assembly says a London-based law firm has been hired to prosecute the British government over the 1917 Balfour Declaration that paved the way for the creation of Israel.
Munib al-Masri said in a Thursday statement that the Sunday decision by the Court of First Instance in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus to declare the document invalid is the first step to suing the British government in the UK for violations committed during its mandate over Palestine.