België heeft in 2021 een bedrag van € 19,5 miljoen aan Palestina toegekend om de humanitaire en ontwikkelingsbehoeften van de Palestijnse bevolking te ondersteunen. Het bedrag is bestemd voor verschillende sectoren, waaronder gezondheid, onderwijs, water en sanitaire voorzieningen, en economische ontwikkeling .
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The EU’s cooperation portfolio in Palestine is implemented in different ways
i) Direct Financial Support
The EU is helping the Palestinian Authority meet its recurrent expenditure by contributing to the payment of salaries and pensions of a number of civil servants in the West Bank. It also provides assistance to the most vulnerable Palestinian families and helps pay for health referrals to the East Jerusalem hospitals. This support is channelled through the PEGASE instrument (Mécanisme Palestino-européen de Gestion de l’Aide Socio-économique). It is accompanied by a policy dialogue aimed at encouraging reforms, which includes an incentive-based framework that links part of this support to reforms in key sectors.
In 2022, the total EU contribution to PEGASE amounts to € 145.35 million of which €55 million for salaries and pensions, €13 million to support the East Jerusalem Hospitals and €50 million to support the incomes of the most vulnerable households (including additional €10 million from the food and resilience facility). In view of the needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic the EU accorded exceptionally an additional EUR 20 million to contribute to the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines authorised by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
ii) Support to Palestine refugees
The EU is one of the largest providers of assistance to Palestine refugees. The EU’s funding is used to ensure that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East’s (UNRWA) is able to provide health, education and social services, including salaries for teachers, doctors and social workers active in refugee camps.
The total EU contribution to UNRWA in 2018,2019, 2020 and 2021 was €487.6 million including contributions to the programme budget, contributions from the EU Regional Trust Fund in response to the Syrian Crisis , EU humanitarian aid, the food security programme under the Development Cooperation Instrument and the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace. In 2022, the EU’s contribution to UNRWA is € 97 million, including € 15 million from the food and resilience facility. The EU already disbursed € 82 in support of the Agency’s programme budget in 2023.
iii) Development programmes
EU-funded development programmes in Palestine focus on job creation and access to water and energy. It is also used to support cooperation between Israel and Palestine, notably on energy and water, working with the Office of the Quartet.
In 2019 the first twinning project started in Palestine in the field of customs and two others are currently being implemented in the sectors of energy and audit. In 2022, Palestine benefitted from 6 TAIEX (Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument) events in 2019.
In addition, €12 million are allocated each year to projects in East Jerusalem, which is a key priority to keep the negotiated two-state solution alive, and to resolve “the status of Jerusalem as the capital of both states” as reflected in the EU Council Conclusions of 22 July 2014.