{"id":197091,"date":"2008-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=197091"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:20:33","slug":"auto-insert-197091","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-197091\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEC Fund donates $3 million for Gaza emergency – OFID press release\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PRESS RELEASE
\n1 December 2008<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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OPEC Fund donates $3 million to UNRWA for Gaza emergency<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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The Vienna-based OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has announced that it will donate $3 million to UNRWA to help the Agency cope with the emergency in Gaza.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The announcement, made on the Day of International Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 28 November, said that the donation was for food aid and medicines.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Welcoming the donation, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Karen Koning AbuZayd, said that it was a timely and generous gesture which would help in meeting the escalating needs of a civilian population which was under grinding pressure from the closure of Gaza. She called on other donors in the West and in the Arab world to follow OFID’s example. <\/p><\/div>\n

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This donation brings to $10 million the pledges made by OFID to UNRWA. On 8 October the Commissioner-General signed in Vienna an agreement whereby OFID have pledged $5 million to build schools in the reconstructed camp of Nahr El Bared in North Lebanon. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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