Ireland has donated €0.5 million to the Gaza Strip following Foreign Minister Charles Flanagan’s trip to the enclave ended yesterday.
Flanagan arrived in the Gaza Strip through the northern Erez border crossing for a brief visit yesterday.
“Today, I saw closely the size of the destruction made to the Palestinian families during the clashes which took place last year,” he told reporters.
He said his country’s donation would be paid to UNRWA in order for it to provide for the urgent needs of families in Gaza.
“Flanagan, accompanied by a delegation of 14 officials, arrived in Gaza through the Erez crossing between Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip,” Maher Abu Sabha, head of the Palestinian border authority, told the Anadolu Agency.
“He met with ministers from the Palestinian unity government and UN officials [in Gaza],” Abu Sabha said.
The visit by Ireland’s top diplomat comes a day after Middle East Quartet head Tony Blair visited the Gaza Strip as part of a regional tour that also included Egypt and Israel.
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