International Courant
ISTANBUL
Saudi Arabia introduced Wednesday that it’ll donate $40 million to the UN company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which has been underneath stress following funding cuts as a consequence of Israeli allegations, the Saudi Press Company reported.
The King Salman Humanitarian Assist and Aid Centre (KSrelief) signed a $40 million monetary help memorandum with UNRWA to help its emergency attraction in Gaza, stated the report.
The memorandum was signed by KSrelief Supervisor Normal Abdullah Al Rabeeah and UNRWA Commissioner-Normal Philippe Lazzarini.
“The monetary help covers the meals safety sector for Palestinians in Gaza, benefiting 250,638 people and offering shelter help and different non-food gadgets to twenty,019 households, representing 200,190 people,” it added.
The report famous that that is a part of the Kingdom’s persistent efforts via KSrelief to offer aid to Palestinians in Gaza and to alleviate their struggling amid the present humanitarian disaster.
UNRWA has been hindered from doing its job since January, when Israel accused a handful of its hundreds of staff of being concerned within the Oct. 7, 2023 cross-border incursion into Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas.
Amid a probe of the claims, a number of international locations have reduce off funding to the company, and its help work for Gaza’s famine-stricken inhabitants has suffered.
At the least 18 international locations initially suspended funding to the company amid the allegations.
UNRWA was created by the UN Normal Meeting greater than 70 years in the past to help Palestinians who had been forcibly displaced from their land.
The company supplies essential help to tens of millions of Palestinian refugees within the Gaza Strip, West Financial institution, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and different areas the place massive numbers of registered Palestinians reside.
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