The United States announced the transfer of $223 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in 2023, an increase of $16 million compared to the year 2022, the State Department announced.
Israel’s Ynet website said the increase makes Washington the largest donor to UNRWA, after the administration of former US President Donald Trump America had stopped funding the UN agency.
The US has transferred nearly $1 billion to UNRWA since Joe Biden became president.
Israel expressed anger at the news, claiming that this support comes despite incitement against the occupation in UNRWA schools.
Such “incitement” includes Palestinian students being taught the names of towns and villages which Israel erased in 1948 to set up its state, and references to Israel as a “Zionist occupation” state that adopts an official policy of erasing Palestinian identity, stealing and falsifying Palestinian heritage and erasing the cultural heritage of Jerusalem.