Occupied Palestinian Territories

In 2019, Lux­em­bourg con­tin­ued to sup­port the mul­ti­an­nu­al part­ner­ship agree­ments con­clud­ed in 2017 with, respec­tive­ly, the Pales­tin­ian Agri­cul­tur­al Relief Com­mit­tee (PARC) in the agri­cul­ture and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment sec­tor, the Pales­tin­ian Med­ical Relief Soci­ety (PMRS) in the sec­tor of repro­duc­tive health for women and the Coali­tion for Account­abil­i­ty and Integri­ty (AMAN) in the trans­paren­cy and inclu­sive gov­er­nance sec­tor. In addi­tion, a new agree­ment with the Teacher Cre­ativ­i­ty Cen­ter (TCC) NGO was signed, cov­er­ing a three-year peri­od (2019−2022). The TCC NGO oper­ates in the train­ing sec­tor, pro­vid­ing psy­cho-social sup­port to teach­ers in Pales­tin­ian schools.

In terms of sup­port for the Unit­ed Nations Relief and Works Agency for Pales­tine Refugees in the Near East (UNR­WA), Lux­em­bourg signed a new mul­ti­an­nu­al agree­ment with a bud­get of EUR 4,000,000 per year for four years in 2019. This sup­port is in addi­tion to the agree­ment con­clud­ed by Lux­em­bourg and the UNR­WA in 2018 for the financ­ing of the Health in Gaza project (2018−2020) with a bud­get of EUR 1,000,000 per year, bring­ing the total annu­al con­tri­bu­tion to the agency to EUR 5,000,000.

Lux­em­bourg has also allo­cat­ed a con­tri­bu­tion of EUR 1,150,000 to the project to con­struct a desali­na­tion plant in Gaza. Finan­cial sup­port for this project is chan­nelled via the Facil­i­ty for Euro-Mediter­ranean Invest­ment and Part­ner­ship (FEMIP) man­aged by the Euro­pean Invest­ment Bank (EIB).

Through human­i­tar­i­an aid, Lux­em­bourg sup­ports the oper­a­tions of the Inter­na­tion­al Com­mit­tee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the West Bank Con­sor­tium project (co-financed with DG ECHO, Bel­gium, Den­mark, Spain, Fin­land, France, Ire­land, Italy, the Unit­ed King­dom and Swe­den). This strate­gic part­ner­ship aims to pre­vent the forcible trans­fer of vul­ner­a­ble Pales­tini­ans to the West Bank and East Jerusalem through a human­i­tar­i­an response based on protection.