EU donates 15 million euros in aid to Palestinian refugees

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 5 March 2003

[anotherview]

Mar. 5, 2003
EU donates 15 million euros in aid to Palestinian refugees

The European Union is donating 15 million euros (US $15 million) worth of food and cash aid to 337,500 Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the West Bank, the Amman office of the European Commission said in a statement Wednesday.

It said at least 25 percent of the donation will go for Palestinian refugees in Jordan, which hosts the largest number of Palestinians displaced in two wars with Israel since 1948.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency - established in 1949 to aid displaced Palestinians - will distribute both the food aid and cash subsidy.

The move is designed to create "stable social living conditions for Palestinian refugees" by ensuring minimum nutritional needs are met for the most vulnerable, the statement said.

It said the aid provides 4,000 metric tons (4,400 short tons) of food and a cash subsidy worth US$40 per person per year targeting special hardship cases, pregnant or nursing women, students or tuberculosis outpatients. The food was scheduled to arrive at UNRWA offices in the region in the last quarter of 2003, the statement said.

[anotherview]

How much will get to the needy, and how much to the terrorists? Why are these people even in refugee camps after 55 years? Why hasn't the Arab world, the Palestinian Authority, or the EU resettled them?

[sheik yerbouty]

Again, I Euronate on the EU. I do not, however, paeon them.

[appalachian_dweller]

The EU continues funding terrorism. Why am I not surprised.

[Alouette]

Palestinian billionaire businessman Monib al-Masri, 65, poses for the media next to a rug bearing an image of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat

Who is this guy, how did he make his billions, and what has he done to alleviate the suffering of his brethren?

[dennisw]

Same as it ever was for these vile EUrocrats. Squandering money on Muslim misfits. Using them as proxie warriors against the Jews of Israel. Hitler would have been proud!

[dennisw]

Does that guy have the cement concession in PallieLand? I hear that's a tremendous money maker! One of the PLO's biggest rackets.

[expatguy]

I wonder how many pairs of shoes Suha Arafat can buy in Paris with 15 million euros.

[OXENinFLA]

In other news---- Arafat was pleased w/ the $14,999,900 he received from the EU. And was nice enough to pass along $100 to refugees. .

[ConservativeConvert]

The Europeans aid and abet in the murder of Israeli civilians. They are complicit in Muslim terrorism and should be held accountable.

[whadizit]

Anti-semitism running rampant! Euros better watch out cause we are going after those who support terrorism. Euros are paying PROTECTION $$$$!!!