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<p>The UK provides humanitarian assistance to Gaza through our support to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the World Food Programme (WFP). The UK contributed £30.5 million to UNRWA’s General Fund in 2011, approximately 30% of which was spent on essential services for refugees in Gaza. We will also provide work and an income for 5,300 vulnerable refugees every year between 2011 and 2015 through UNRWA’s back-to-work programme and food vouchers to around 5,750 households (affecting over 37,000 people) in Gaza through our support to the WFP by March 2015.</p><p>From 2011 to 2015, the UK will provide up to £122 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA) to help fund the provision of basic public services and develop Palestinian institutions. Each year, UK aid to the PA will help immunise 2,000 under-fives against measles, support 5,700 children through primary school and provide cash transfers to 7,000 of the poorest people. Around 40% of our support to the PA benefits Gazans.</p> |