Iraq and Qatar pledged to provide an additional $50 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to help it meet the emergency needs of the UN agency.
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Qatar's representative to the United Nations, Alia Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, announced the provision of an additional $25 million to UNRWA to help it meet emergency needs.
In turn, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein announced that Baghdad had decided to support the agency with $25 million.
The Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, had previously announced that the agency had no capacity to absorb financial shocks, especially in light of the escalation of the war in the Gaza Strip.
The UN agency warned of famine in the northern Gaza Strip , in light of the depletion of food and drinking water and Israel preventing the arrival of aid.
Israel accused UNRWA of being "completely infiltrated by Hamas" and that 12 of the agency's 13,000 employees in Gaza were involved in the attack launched by the movement on October 7.
In response to these accusations, about a dozen countries, including major donors such as the United States, Germany, Britain, and Sweden, announced the suspension of their funding to the agency.