Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday that the United States will restore $235 million in aid to the Palestinian people.
In a reversal of policy from the Trump administration, Blinken said the United States will provide economic, development and humanitarian assistance for Palestinians which he said “serves important U.S. interests and values.”
The aid includes $150 million in humanitarian assistance for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency including education for more than 500,000 Palestinian children and COVID-19 assistance.
“The United States is deeply committed to ensuring that our partnership with UNRWA promotes neutrality, accountability, and transparency,” Blinken said. “As with all of our engagements in U.N. institutions, the United States needs to be at the table to ensure that the reforms advance efficiencies and are in accord with interests and values.”
The UNRWA said in a statement Wednesday that the U.S. funds will support, food, physical and mental health, protection, and water and sanitation.
“UNRWA could not be more pleased that once again we will partner with the United States to provide critical assistance to some of the most vulnerable refugees across the Middle East and fulfill our mandate to educate and provide primary health care to millions of refugees every day,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said.
Additionally, the United States will provide $75 million in economic and development assistance in the West Bank and Gaza and $10 million for peacebuilding programs through the U.S. Agency for International Development, with a portion of the overall funding supporting the East Jerusalem Hospital Network.
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The renewed funding will be provided in addition to the $15 million the United States announced to address the COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity in March.
The Trump administration broadly cut Palestinian aid funding in 2018, including $200 million that had been set aside for basic humanitarian services such as healthcare, education, and wastewater projects, in the West Bank and Gaza as part of the State Department’s Economic Support and Development Fund.
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anti white,anti jew,anti christian which one of his minions is the anti christ?
joe will be a disaster of biblical proportions.
These people hate the US and what we stand for. It’s already a proven fact that giving them money so they will like doesn’t work.
Much better use would be in this country cleaning up some of our cities and homeless encampments
BETTER YET, use it to help OUR MILITARY VETERANS!
The communist occupier democrat/rino’s loath our military… these demons advocate our military strength is what causes all the problems in the world… if anything the money will come out of the V.A.
I honestly wonder.. HAS ANY DEMOCRAT ever loved our military men and women?
I always helps to give money to people who hate us and train their children as terrorists, perhaps they can set up more bomb making classes for the less fortunate.
You can bet the farm on that… and… it will be on our soil… through the our education system.
Subsidized hate for the Palestinian school kids being indoctrinated to hate and want to kill all Jews. Satan really IS pulling the strings on Joe the Biden.
For all we know, that is already here, filthy.
How about spending $231,000,000 to improve our rotten educational system, or on additional guards to secure our border. Spending this much money on people who are enemies of the USA is an outrage. Biden should be recalled immediately! What else is he going to waste our tax money on?
It’s too hard for the democrats to use common sense. Education is very important. Education is the way to stop wage and income gap for minorities. But giving money to Privileges people who Support Terrorism is more important
Ida. HOW MANY BILLIONS MORE must we Waste on our ‘education’ system, before we wise the hell up and realize “THROWING MORE MONEY at the problem, is NOT THE answer?!?!?
If the money was wasted on it… it would all go to the administrators … here in Detoilet Michigan they imported a Superintendent from Missouri (I believe)… about 30 years ago… She was paid $600,000 a year! Now… just what is in her job description that warrants her get $275,000 more (at that time) than the President of the United States! We need school vouchers.
SIX HUNDRED thousand a year?!?! EVEN a college deen doesn’t make that much.
Let the Muslim countries help the Palestinians! They hate the U.S. and our ally Israel. We should never give then anything.
Yep, send money to a group of people that support terrorism, a group that will kill Americans. Make America Last Again, right Joe criminal?
So far, that seems to be ALL HE HAS done.. AND the propaganda dept has KISSED HIS BUTT for it.
$234 million to terrorists, somewhat cheap compared to Mullah OBamarhoid,
but in keeping with a traitor to America, Joe is moving on his evil path.
Divine intervention will eventually square every thing but until then
fight………….Williaim
Got that right Willy boy… only one option left.
It appears that the only way to get a piece of the taxes you pay to the Government is to live in another country.