India has donated USD 2.5 million to the UN company for Palestinian refugees, prompting the UNRWA on Tuesday to welcome the beneficiant contribution at a “difficult time”, notably in Gaza.
The United Nations Aid and Works Company for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), purposeful since 1950, carries out direct reduction and work programmes for registered Palestine refugees. It’s funded nearly solely by voluntary contributions from UN Member States.
India on Monday gave UNRWA USD 2.5 million as a part of its annual contribution of USD 5 million for the 12 months 2023-24 to help the company’s core programmes and companies, together with training, healthcare, reduction, and social companies supplied to Palestinian refugees, the Consultant Workplace of India at Ramallah mentioned.
The contribution was handed over by the Consultant of India (ROI) to Palestine, Renu Yadav, to the Director of Partnerships, Division of Exterior Relations of UNRWA, Karim Amer.
The ROI underlined India’s continued help for the company’s actions within the area and the companies it offers to Palestinian refugees through the handover ceremony at UNRWA’s discipline workplace in Jerusalem, an official press launch mentioned.
“Confirming that UNRWA received a very generous contribution from India yesterday (Monday), which is most welcome during these difficult times and in the face of huge needs across the region, particularly in Gaza,” a spokesperson for UNRWA, Tamara Alrifai, advised PTI.
The UNRWA has been struggling to offer fundamental companies to lots of of 1000’s of Palestinians because the October 7 Israel-Hamas battle which has prompted greater than two-thirds of the Gaza inhabitants – of roughly 2.3 million – to flee their properties.
Earlier on November 19, India had delivered 32 tonnes of “humanitarian assistance to the people of Palestine” through the El-Arish Airport in Egypt. Since 2018, India has given USD 27.5 million to UNRWA.
Throughout an Extraordinary Digital Ministerial Pledging Convention for UNRWA held on June 23, 2020, India introduced that it might contribute USD 10 million to UNRWA over the following two years.
Previous to the warfare in Gaza, UNRWA was already dealing with an elevated demand for companies ensuing from a development within the variety of registered Palestine refugees, the extent of their vulnerability, and their deepening poverty. The company is remitted to offer help and safety to some 5.6 million Palestine refugees registered with it throughout its 5 fields of operation.
Its mission is to assist Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Financial institution, together with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip obtain their full human growth potential, pending a simply and lasting resolution to their plight. UNRWA companies embody training, well being care, reduction and social companies, camp infrastructure and enchancment, safety, and microfinance amongst Palestinian refugees.
Throughout the first-ever Indian Prime Minister’s go to to Palestine in February 2018, India elevated its annual monetary contribution fourfold to the UNRWA core finances, from USD 1.25 million to USD 5 million.
India has additionally made a powerful attraction to different conventional donors of UNRWA to think about enhancing their contributions in addition to to non-donor member states to think about contributing to the company in solidarity with the Palestine refugees.