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LONDON, July 21 (KUNA) -- UK government announced new POUND 60 million (equivalent USD 81 million) humanitarian aid package to support healthcare, food and water, the British Foreign Office said Monday.
In a statement to Parliament, the Foreign Secretary David Lammy outlined that food assistance programs, water and sanitation services and maternal and children's healthcare will be scaled up through this new POUND 60 million funding.
This will include continued support to two field hospitals in Gaza run by UK-Med.
UK-Med are a frontline medical organization deployed to crises who have now treated over 500,000 Gazans over the course of the conflict.
Also, 24,000 of these were in the past fortnight alone, with UK-Med treating a range of medical conditions as well as injuries related to the conflict.
This announcement also includes POUND 20 million in support for UNRWA's essential services for Palestinian refugees.
This funding will provide emergency food, shelter and other support for over two million people, as well support UNRWA's wider work across the region.
UNWRA's work in Gaza ensures water provision reaches up to 600,000 people monthly across Gaza.
The UK also announced POUND seven million of support to strengthen governance in the OPTs, including supporting the Palestinian Authority's delivery of their reform agenda.
Lammy added the IDF has driven Palestinians out of 86 percent of Gaza, leaving around two million people trapped in an area scarcely over twenty square miles.
On Syria, he said the violence in Al-Suwayda must be investigated and those responsible held accountable.
We want humanitarian access to be restored, aid delivered and Syria's sovereignty must be respected.
The UK can be proud of our support to the Syrian people over many, many years.
And a stable Syria matters to the UK's national interest, for terrorism, for irregular migration, for regional stability, he added. (end)
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