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<p>The UK has pledged £764 million to support the global humanitarian response to
COVID-19. We have delivered additional vital support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
by providing funding to the World Health Organization and UNICEF to purchase and co-ordinate
the delivery of medical equipment, treat critical care patients, train frontline public
health personnel and scale up laboratory testing capacity. Minister Cleverly also
recently announced £20 million in new funding, which will help the Palestinian Authority
support its health workers who have been on the frontline battling coronavirus and
who help deliver life-saving medical services.</p><p>We also provided around £16 million
in humanitarian assistance in 2019/20 to alleviate humanitarian and health needs in
the OPTs. This included establishing a centralised surgical multi-disciplinary limb
reconstruction unit, strengthening trauma care, enhancing the ambulance system, and
training paramedics and frontline providers in Gaza. Our funding to the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) also helps provide health services for around 3.5
million people in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.</p><p> </p>
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