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Canada is supposed to pay the aid within two years and most of them will be allocated for training, health and life affairs of Palestinian refugees especially children and women, the statement read.
The rest of the aid will be used for 450,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria and Lebanon, it added.
Ottawa government also announced that another financial aid worth $ 12,500,000 which is with global organization ' Right To Play International' for building safe classes and training teachers.
The US Department of State, blocking 65 million dollars of the original 125 million dollars of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian refugees, announced that giving more aid depends on fundamental modifications by the UN agency in Palestine.
Meanwhile, Hannan Ashrawi, senior member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), in a statement slammed the US act saying 'The US administration is demonstrating the use of cheap blackmail as a political tool.'
'The Palestinian people and leadership will not be intimidated and will not succumb to coercion. The rights of the Palestinian people are not for sale,' Ashrawi said.
'There is no glory in constantly bullying and punishing people under occupation. The US administration has already demonstrated meanness of spirit in its collusion with the Israeli occupation and its theft of land and resources….now it is exercising economic meanness by punishing the Palestinian victims of this occupation,' she added.
Earlier the European Union announced that after the US cutting aid to UNRWA, the European Union allocated €40m to the agency.
'We will add €40 million to our financing to UNRWA on top of the funding we are already providing. We will continue to invest in that because we think this is a key, not only humanitarian duty, but also investment in the two state solution,' the European External Action Service (EEAS) quoted the European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini as saying in UNRWA ministerial meeting and Ad Hoc Liaison Committee meeting.
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