More than $110 million was raised Tuesday at a pledging conference to support UNRWA which has been struggling since the United States slashed funding.
UNRWA commissioner general Pierre Krahenbuhl said the funding would allow the agency which provides education and health services to Palestinians to cover costs for the coming months and avoid a budget crisis.
Around 35 countries took part in the conference mostly European and Arab nations with the biggest contributions coming from the European Union Germany and Britain.
The conference was held on the same day as president Donald Trump’s administration unveiled the economic component of a Middle East peace plan (the deal of the century) at a workshop in Bahrain boycotted by the Palestinian Authority.
Krahenbuhl told reporters that there was no clash between the UNRWA pledging event and the US-organized conference in Bahrain because “we deal with the realities of today.”
