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Russian Federation and WFP provide food to vulnerable Palestinians
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JERUSALEM – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) started delivering fortified wheat flour for 72,000 people of the most vulnerable families in Gaza and the West Bank people for nine months, thanks to a US$4 million grant from the Russian Federation.
WFP used the funds to purchase 5,076 tons of wheat flour from Russia. Wheat flour is a key component of WFP’s food ration it distributes to Bedouin and herding communities in the West Bank and other vulnerable families in Gaza, alongside pulses, vitamin-rich vegetable oil and iodized salt.
“Together with our esteemed colleagues from WFP we are proud to be a part of joint efforts to provide basic food support to the poorest families here in Palestine,“ said Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the Palestinian Authority Alexey Faezov during distributions of wheat flour to the Bedouin and herding community of Wadi Qelt in the West Ban
Germany extends support to WFP to scale up food assistance to vulnerable Palestinians
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Jerusalem – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a €9 million (US$10.5 million) contribution from the Government of Germany to provide much-needed food assistance for the poorest and most food insecure Palestinian families.
This generous contribution from the German Federal Foreign Office, €4 million for 2020 and another €5 million for 2021, has enabled WFP to avert disruptions in its food assistance to approximately 340,000 non-refugee Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, most of them women and children. Through the WFP food vouchers they receive, families can buy a variety of food items that includes fresh dairy products, eggs, vegetables, and meat at 335 local retailers.