Foreign Minister Kamikawa spoke by phone with Prime Minister Mustafa of the Palestinian Authority and informed him that the suspended funding to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) would be resumed.
Regarding UNRWA, the Japanese government suspended funding from January this year due to suspicions that some staff members were involved in the attack on Israel by the Islamic organization Hamas in October last year. On the 2nd, the Minister announced that contributions would be resumed as measures to improve governance were being made.
Minister Kamikawa spoke by phone with Prime Minister Mustafa of the Palestinian Authority on the evening of the 2nd and informed him that Japan would resume funding to UNRWA. He also expressed the idea that the donation would provide medical services to Palestinian refugees in surrounding countries and regions, as well as aid supplies for women and infants in the Gaza Strip, where sanitary conditions are deteriorating.
Prime Minister Mustafa, who heads the new cabinet that was inaugurated on the 31st of last month, expressed his gratitude, saying, ``The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is extremely serious, and I am grateful for Japan's resumption of contributions.''
Minister Kamikawa also expressed his intention to contribute to the realization of a "two-state solution" in which Israel and a self-sustaining Palestinian state coexist, and both ministers agreed to work together to quickly calm down the situation. .