NEW YORK – President Joe Biden’s administration plans to provide $235M of aid to Palestinians, restoring part of the assistance cut by Donald Trump.
Two-thirds will go to United Nations’s agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, which suffered financial crisis since it lost $360M of United States’ funding in 2018.
Biden wanted to “restore credible engagement” by the Palestinians in long-stalled peace talks with Israel.
Palestinian leaders accused Trump of being heavily biased towards Israel.
They rejected a peace plan he unveiled last year that envisaged recognizing Israeli sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley, and Jerusalem remaining Israel’s “undivided capital”.(BBC)
