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| US announces $20.3 mn aid to Palest |
| US announces $20.3 mn aid to Palestinians
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 31-January-2009
8:15:30 AM |
| The Obama Administration has announced emergency humanitarian aid worth USD 20.3 million for urgent relief efforts in the Gaza Strip, where nearly 1,300 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians, were killed in the three-week-long Israeli offensive.
The assistance is part of the Emergency Refugee and Migration Fund, White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs said. The announcement of the relief assistance, which would address the critical post-conflict humanitarian needs in Gaza, came yesterday as the US' Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, continued to tour the region.
With this, the total humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugees has increased to USD 120 million this year, including USD 60 million in Gaza.
Later, the State Department said of the USD 20.3 million, USD 13.5 million will go to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, USD 6 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross, and USD 800,000 to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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