The Government of Japan has contributed an additional $7 million to UNRWA, the UN agency for “Palestinian refugees”, the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) official news agency Wafa reported on Sunday.
The Japanese Ambassador to the PA, Takeshi Okubo, said, according to the report, “I’m very happy to share with you that the Government of Japan has decided to contribute 7 million US dollars to UNRWA for the project entitled ‘Emergency Grant Aid in response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria and Lebanon’ that is followed by the recent commitment of Japan to contribute $23 million to UNRWA from the supplementary budget of FY 2018.”
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