Ireland welcomes EU decision to continue UNRWA funding
by Cillian Sherlock
Mar 01, 2024
3 minutes
Ireland has welcomed the European Commission’s decision to release funding to the UN’s Palestinian aid agency.
The commission said on Friday that it would proceed with paying 50 million euro (£43 million) of its 82 million (£70 million) euro envelope towards the agency next week and increase emergency support to Palestinians by 68 million euro (£58 million) this year by funding other organisations.
It had also allocated 125 million euro (£107 million) of humanitarian aid for Palestinians this year and contracted the first 16 million euro (£14 million) of this
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