Aid from the Arab world to Palestine decreased by 85%

The help Palestine acquired from the Arab world final yr noticed a pointy decline.

In accordance to the 2020 price range information printed by the Palestinian Ministry of Finance, support from Arab nations to the Palestinian price range final yr remained at the stage of 40 million {dollars}.

“THEY TURNED THEIR BACKS TO PALESTINE”

Accordingly, the support of Arab nations, which supported Palestine with $265.5 million in 2019, decreased by 84.9 % in 2020.

The prevalence of the lower in the quantity in query, “The Arab world has turned its again on Palestine” interpreted as.

SAUDI ARABIA AHEAD

It’s said that the largest share in the decline belongs to Saudi Arabia, which has largely reduce its support to the Palestinian Authority with 81.4%.

The Riyadh administration, which offered $174.7 million in support to Palestine in 2019, offered solely $32.5 million in support final yr.

Qatar, Oman and Algeria are additionally amongst the nations serving to Palestine.

AID SUSPENDED

Palestinian Finance Minister Shukri Bashara mentioned in an announcement final yr, “Some fraternal nations suspended their support to Palestine with out giving any motive” had said.

Whereas support to Palestine reached 1 billion {dollars} earlier than 2015, it decreased to 538.3 million {dollars} in 2019 and 369.7 million {dollars} in 2020.

TRUMP’S CALL TO CUT FINANCIAL AID

The previous President Donald Trump administration, which has made controversial selections corresponding to the US shifting the Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem and utterly stopping the monetary support to the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Company, has lastly made the so-called Center East peace plan known as the Deal of the Century and the Arab nations’ dedication to Israel. He got here to the fore along with his efforts to make them settle for their normalization.

Trump, who took a pro-Israel stance, known as on wealthy nations to reduce monetary support to the Palestinians.