US To Restore About $150 Million In Aid to Palestine

Biden administration plans to uncover a package of around $ 150 million of US aid to Palestine, recovering a part of the assistance that the former President Donald Trump cut off, people familiar with the problem said on Wednesday.

Help, most will be given through the United Nations Assistance Agency, it is expected to be announced by the US Department of State as soon as Wednesday as part of an effort to improve US bonds with Palestine that all but fainted during the term Trump’s term in the White House.

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Democrat President Joe Biden has clarified his intentions to roll back the Republican advance approach that the Palestinians are very biased when it comes to Israel. Moreover, earlier, the new government promised to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in economic and humanitarian assistance and work to reopen the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington.

Biden’s helpers have also clarified they want to rebuild the two-state solution’s objectives is a priority in American policy about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But they have moved carefully so far, and any significant steps tend to wait after the inconclusive March election in Israel, which will be followed by the Palestinian elections scheduled in the coming months.

Trump’s administration blocked almost all assistance as he severed relations with the Palestinian Authority in 2018. This step was seen broadly as an effort to force Palestine to negotiate with Israel with the requirements that the Palestinian leadership branded as an effort to deny them a state. This includes canceling assistance for funding for the UN Works and Relief Agency (UNWRA), which provides assistance services to around 5.7 million Palestinian refugees registered in the Middle East.

The restored funding is likely to be channeled to UNWRA while the administration tends to refrain from now ongoing direct economic assistance to the Palestinian Authority, the sources told Reuters. The money that will go to UNWRA does not immediately restore the contribution to the US’s level of $365 million to the agency in 2017.