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Please take action to restore UK aid to Palestinian healthcare
I am writing as a constituent to express my serious concern at the UK Government’s decision to cut its aid funding to Palestinian health and education workers. The UK’s financial support helped pay the salaries of tens of thousands of Palestinian public servants including doctors and teachers. Amid significant pressures on the Palestinian health system due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing settler and military violence, and a deepening wellbeing crisis among exhausted Palestinian healthcare workers, the UK’s decision to cut funding could have severe consequences for essential services. In 2019, the UK contributed £20m to the salaries of more than 37,800 critical frontline health and education professionals in the West Bank, and enabled 5,058 immunisations against measles, mumps and rubella and 139,445 medical consultations. This aid was described by an internal UK Government review last year as a “crucial provision of basic services for the oPt, especially given the current financial and health crises.” The UK has also cut its core grant to UNRWA by more than 50% in 2021, threatening the continuity of essential services to Palestinian refugees at a time when the agency is "close to collapse" according to its Commissioner General, Philippe Lazzarini. I ask that you to write to UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, urging that she immediately reverse these dangerous cuts to financial assistance to the Palestinian health and education sectors and UNRWA services. I also ask that you seek opportunities in Parliament to call on the government to support the Palestinian health system to build back stronger from the pandemic through sustainable financial and technical assistance, and aid to Palestinian civil society organisations.
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