عريقات : نشكر اعضاء الكونجريس الامريكي الذين طالبوا بتقديم المساعدات للفلسطينيين وكذلك دعم مستشفيات القدس الشرقية

الموقع الاخباري الرسمي لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية

اعرب الدكتور صائب عريقات امين سر اللجنة التنفيذية لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية عن شكره لأعضاء الكونجريس الامريكي الذين طالبوا اليوم بتوفير وصرف  مساعدات للفلسطينيين ، وبما يشمل وكالة غوث وتشغيل اللاجئين الفلسطينيين  UNRWA, لان وباء كورونا وصل الى مخيمات اللجوء فى الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة والأردن وسوريا ولبنان .

 كما طالب اعضاء الكونجريس ايضا بتقديم المساعدات الى المرافق الصحية  الستة التي تشمل شبكة مستشفيات القدس الشرقية.

The Honorable Kelly Craft

Ambassador of the United States of America

799 United Nations

Plaza New York, NY 10017

Dear Ambassador Craft: As COVID-19 pandemic numbers continue to rise, we write to seek your assistance in the effort to restart U.S. humanitarian assistance to Palestinians, including UNRWA. As you know, the pandemic has now reached the Gaza Strip with cases beginning to inexorably rise in a place with few resources to combat the outbreak. Coupled with the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, the pandemic now poses an unprecedented global health emergency.

It is important that we empower these public health officials, who are deliberately putting themselves in harm’s way for the common good, by providing them the resources they need to address the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. government has funding available through its Migration and Refugee Assistance and Economic Support Fund programs for immediate obligation to address this deteriorating humanitarian situation. The administration need only obligate these funds - their use requires neither additional legislative language nor supplemental appropriations.

These funds could be put to instant use supporting the public health response, including the 3,300 health care workers staffing 144 UNRWA health clinics that are now on the front lines in combating this pandemic. UNRWA is working closely with host authorities and the World Health Organization with triage care and protocols in place to identify patients with respiratory symptoms. This funding could also support the six facilities comprising the East Jerusalem Hospital Network, as well as U.S. NGOs engaged in health work. Thank you for your consideration.

We hope you can assist in making these potentially life-saving funds available for immediate obligation.

Sincerely, Debbie Dingell Jared Huffman Member of Congress Member of Congress Raul M. Grijalva Bonnie Watson Coleman Member of Congress Member of Congress Bobby L. Rush Peter Welch Member of Congress Member of Congress Betty McCollum Ilhan Omar Member of Congress Member of Congress James P. McGovern Ruben Gallego Member of Congress Member of Congress Mike Doyle Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr. Member of Congress Member of Congress Mark Takano Jamie Raskin Member of Congress Member of Congress Seth Moulton André Carson Member of Congress Member of Congress Pramila Jayapal Alan Lowenthal Member of Congress Member of Congress Diana DeGette Rosa DeLauro Member of Congress Member of Congress Jahana Hayes Sean Casten Member of Congress Member of Congress Dwight Evans Peter A. DeFazio Member of Congress Member of Congress Mark Pocan Jan Schakowsky Member of Congress Member of Congress Barbara Lee Tom Malinowski Member of Congress Member of Congress Ro Khanna Don Beyer Member of Congress Member of Congress David E. Price Julia Brownley Member of Congress Member of Congress Jason Crow David N. Cicilline Member of Congress Member of Congress Jesús G. “Chuy” García Judy Chu Member of Congress Member of Congress Deb Haaland Eleanor Holmes Norton Member of Congress Member of Congress Ted W. Lieu Jackie Speier Member of Congress Member of Congress Joseph P. Kennedy, III Danny K. Davis Member of Congress Member of Congress Karen Bass Zoe Lofgren Member of Congress Member of Congress Nydia M. Velázquez Jennifer Wexton Member of Congress Member of Congress Gerald E. Connolly John Yarmuth Member of Congress Member of Congress Anna G. Eshoo Lori Trahan Member of Congress Member of Congress Suzanne Bonamici Donald M. Payne, Jr. Member of Congress Member of Congress Earl Blumenauer Stephen F. Lynch Member of Congress Member of Congress Katherine M. Clark Brenda L. Lawrence Member of Congress Member of Congress Gwen Moore Rashida Tlaib Member of Congress Member of Congress Andy Levin Member of Congress