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<p>UNRWA has two 2019 emergency appeals for the Occupied Palestinian Territory and
Regional Syria Crisis. The UK Government has multi-year commitments to support UNRWA’s
Regional Syria Emergency Appeal and UNRWA’s core programme budget. We plan to provide
£13m to the Regional Syria Emergency Appeal in 2019 and we also intend to provide
£33.5m to UNRWA’s core programme budget next financial year. The UK is a leading donor
to UNRWA and I am proud to confirm that we plan to provide up to £80m to UNRWA overall
over the next two years.</p><p> </p><p>As one example of the impact UK Aid will have,
our support to UNRWA’s Regional Syria Appeal will help provide life-saving assistance
for the 438,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria, 95% of whom need sustained humanitarian
assistance, and 17,700 Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria seeking shelter in
Jordan.</p>
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