US provides $15 million to Palestinians to cope with COVID-19

The Biden administration is giving the Palestinians $15 million to assist of their COVID-19 response within the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the U.S. State Department stated in a press release on Thursday.
The funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) would assist assist efforts by the Catholic Relief Services in healthcare amenities in addition to tackle meals insecurity, the assertion stated.

In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh welcomed the U.S. monetary assist to the Palestinian Authority’s efforts to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a press release printed by the official Palestinian information company WAFA, Shtayyeh described it as “an important step in the right direction to reshape the relationship with the U.S. administration, which had stopped during Trump’s rule of the White House.”