Vienna-Sana
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that it is seeking $1.6 billion from the international community to cover the expenses of its programs to assist refugees during the year 2022.
The agency said in a statement today, reported by AFP, that this funding will enable the agency to provide millions of services and programs essential for life to Palestinian refugees, including education, health and food assistance.
She noted that this proposed budget includes additional emergency funding to deal with the needs arising from the crises in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Syria and Lebanon.
The agency was established by a decision of the United Nations in 1949 to provide aid to Palestinian refugees, whose number is now estimated at about five million and 700 thousand refugees living in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. The deficit when the US administration stopped its support for the agency after severing its relationship with the Palestinian Authority in 2018 during the era of former President Donald Trump, but the United States resumed part of the support under the current President Joe Biden.
