Press Release: Commission provides EUR7 million in humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable Palestinians

The European Commission allocated a further €7 million in humanitarian aid for people made vulnerable by the Middle East crisis, 7 December 2004. The was planned to provide access to food, clean water and sanitation for the poorest Palestinians living on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. There was also a major funding component to help rehabilitate the shelters of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. The aid was channelled through ECHO, the European Commission's humanitarian aid department. It brought the Commission's humanitarian assistance to victims of the Middle East crisis to €37 million for 2004.