The U.S. government said it was giving $5 million in assistance to help Palestinian hospitals and households cope with the coronavirus. Announcing the aid in a tweet, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said “the USA, as the world’s top humanitarian aid donor, is committed to assisting the Palestinian people, & others worldwide, in this crisis.”
The humanitarian assistance came as Palestinian health authorities earlier Thursday said that the number of registered COVID-19 cases had risen to 294, of the 62 recovered and two dead. The authorities said they were struggling to maintain the needed medical supplies, mainly because Israel is holding funds to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and because of U.S. aid cuts to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
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