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EU donates 13.4 million USD to rebuild refugee camp in Lebanon

Xinhua, October 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

The European Union said on Thursday it has provided 12 million euros (13.4 million U.S. dollars) to support the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to reconstruct the Nahr el-Bared Camp (NBC) in Lebanon.

"These funds come in addition to the 24 million euros previously donated by the European Union to contribute to rebuilding the NBC," the bloc said in a statement.

"We hope that this support will contribute to settling grievances surrounding the 2007 conflict and to provide better protection, shelter and dignity to the lives of many Palestinian refugees in this country," said Christina Lassen, the EU's ambassador to Lebanon.

Given the funding the camp has so far received, it is estimated that 2,670 families, or 11,062 people, accounting for 72 percent of those originally displaced, will return to their homes by mid-2017.

UNRWA is nearly halfway through the reconstruction project, but it still needs 105.9 million U.S. dollars to finish the job.

The UNRWA, a relief and human development agency established in 1949, has a specific mandate to assist and protect some five million registered Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Endit