Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)

In gen­er­al, in 2023, Lux­em­bourg chan­nelled human­i­tar­i­an aid to the OPT main­ly through the Inter­na­tion­al Com­mit­tee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the West Bank Pro­tec­tion Con­sor­tium (WBPC) project man­aged by the NGO Nor­we­gian Refugee Coun­cil (NRC) and the NGOHand­i­cap Inter­na­tion­al Lux­em­bourg (HIL).

The Unit­ed Nations Relief and Works Agency for Pales­tine Refugees in the Near East (UNR­WA) is anoth­er key play­er for Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion in the OPT, and forms the back­bone of the human­i­tar­i­an response to the human­i­tar­i­an cri­sis in the Gaza Strip. In 2023, Lux­em­bourg allo­cat­ed a total of EUR9.6 mil­lion to UNR­WA, includ­ing EUR3.6 mil­lion for its human­i­tar­i­an response to var­i­ous crises, account­ing for 37.5% of Luxembourg’s total con­tri­bu­tion to the agency. Lux­em­bourg also start­ed, in 2023, sup­port for the project to digi­tise UNR­WA archives by allo­cat­ing EUR1 mil­lion. The project involves the dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion of UNR­WA his­tor­i­cal reg­is­tra­tion doc­u­ments and the trac­ing of fam­i­ly trees for reg­is­tered Pales­tin­ian refugees.