The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, has announced that the Government will contribute 3.5 million euros to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) so that it can maintain its activities in the short term after the withdrawal of funding by several donor countries.

Before the International Cooperation Commission of the Congress of Deputies, Albares has insisted that it is an “indispensable organization” and for this reason the Government will mobilize an urgent allocation of 3.5 million euros, of which it already informed the Commissioner General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, on Friday.

The minister has stressed the “desperate situation” in Gaza and has warned of the risk that “in a few weeks” UNRWA activities will have to be paralyzed due to lack of funds, while highlighting that this UN agency supports 6 million Palestinian refugees, three of each four are outside Palestine.

Thus, he has asked the deputies of all political parties that during the planned debate support “a great agreement to support UNRWA” whose work, he has defended, “is more necessary than ever.”

Likewise, it has acknowledged concern over the allegations that a dozen workers from this agency participated in the Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7 and has highlighted that both UNRWA and the UN have immediately initiated an investigation. “We follow him very closely”he pointed out.