{"id":235846,"date":"2020-05-08T12:54:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=235846"},"modified":"2020-06-22T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T14:47:43","slug":"unrwa-launches-new-coronavirus-us-93-4-million-emergency-appeal-for-palestine-refugees-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-launches-new-coronavirus-us-93-4-million-emergency-appeal-for-palestine-refugees-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Launches New Coronavirus US$ 93.4 Million Emergency Appeal for Palestine Refugees – Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is urgently seeking US$ 93.4 million for its response to COVID-19 in the areas of health care, sanitation and hygiene and education over the next three months. The required amount is an update from the Agency\u2019s earlier\u00a0appeal<\/a>, with a large portion of the funding aimed at covering cash and food assistance to this particularly vulnerable population, as the socio-economic consequences of the public health crisis continue to weigh heavily on households.<\/p>\n

Since the start of the crisis, the Agency has worked diligently to deliver essential, lifesaving services to Palestine refugees throughout the Middle East. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) has been distributed to thousands of front line health staff, triage systems have been introduced in all health centres to screen patients with respiratory symptoms and minimize contact with other patients, non-critical health services have been suspended and telemedicine and door-to-door delivery of medicine and food were introduced to reduce foot traffic at health clinics and food distribution centres.<\/p>\n

In order to ensure the continuity of education to over 530,000 students enrolled in UNRWA schools and 8,270 young people in vocational centres, the\u00a0Agency Education in Emergencies (EiE)<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0approach, developed in response to conflicts in Syria and Gaza, has been adjusted to the COVID-19 crisis and implemented. To avoid any additional public health hazard, sanitation works and solid waste collection have continued in all camps, and protective measures for sanitation workers have increased. The Agency is continuing its vital food and cash assistance programs for the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen how the crisis is disproportionally hitting the poorest and most destitute communities around the world. This is sadly also true for Palestine refugees who are amongst the most vulnerable populations in the Middle East,\u201d said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini. \u201cMost refugees UNRWA serves live under the poverty line and lack the safety net needed to absorb the financial and medical shocks created by the COVID-19 pandemic. They are now facing devastating consequences to their physical, social and economic wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UNRWA emergency appeal will work to prevent a disastrous situation that could leave thousands of lives in the balance and will protect against the most severe impacts of the pandemic by providing basic needs such as food, water and lifesaving health care and preventing against further deterioration to refugees\u2019 health and socio-economic safety.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as the global crisis persists, UNRWA will continue to adapt the way it works so that it responds to the needs and expectations of Palestine refugees. I\u00a0count on the\u00a0solidarity of the international\u00a0community to help us\u00a0ensure Palestine refugees remain safe\u00a0and able to\u00a0weather the economic storm\u00a0that could push this vulnerable community to the brink of disaster. This could trigger more instability in an already volatile region,\u201d said Lazzarini.<\/p>\n

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Read the full Updated UNRWA Flash Appeal for the COVID-19 response\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

08 May 2020 Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 UNRWA student in the West Bank fills supplementary papers that she receives from teachers in remote and hard to reach areas so that she can continue studying. \u00a9 2020 UNRWA Photo The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is urgently seeking US$ […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[909,933,2241],"document-category":[2685,2437,1329],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2533,2153,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6544,6542],"class_list":["post-235846","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-jordan","country-lebanon","country-syria","document-category-appeal","document-category-arabic-text","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-health","document-subject-refugee-camps","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-arabic","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/235846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/235846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=235846"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=235846"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=235846"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=235846"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=235846"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=235846"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=235846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}