The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees "UNRWA" called on the international community to secure $ 1.5 billion to finance its basic services, emergency appeals and priority projects for Palestine refugees registered in the West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
UNRWA stated, in a press release, today, Thursday, that "806 million dollars are needed to secure basic services such as education, health, relief and social services, protection, infrastructure and camp improvement." She added that the emergency humanitarian aid provided by UNRWA, in response to the devastating effects of the blockade and occupation in the occupied Palestinian territories, requires $ 231 million. She pointed out that it needs $ 318 million in order to respond to the difficulties caused by the conflict in Syria to Palestine refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, and nearly $ 170 million is needed for priority projects to repair or build UNRWA facilities and enhance or improve basic services. UNRWA confirmed that it will continue to provide quality education, based on the principles of human rights and tolerance, to more than half a million students, and will support access for young Palestine refugees, specifically women, to training in the Agency´s distinctive technical and vocational training centers, whose students are usually employed. Within a year of their graduation. She indicated that its health centers throughout the region will receive more than five million patient visits, and will continue to provide telemedicine and ensure that basic vaccinations cover all Palestine refugee children, in addition to securing access to maternal health, reproductive and psychological health services, and will enable more than 250,000 One of the poorest refugees has access to cash assistance. UNRWA indicated that the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories has greatly deteriorated as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, and because of this, it will support about 1.25 million food insecure Palestine refugees through emergency food aid or cash aid. UNRWA appealed to its donors to provide the necessary funding to enable it to fulfill its mandate, to avoid recurrent financial crises, which put the Agency´s basic and life-saving humanitarian services at risk, and to unite efforts to collectively develop a forward-looking and sustainable vision for UNRWA.
