Ahmed Abu Houli,  the head of the PLO‘s Refugee Affairs Department, called on UNRWA to launch a new appeal for emergency relief to combat COVID-19, and to provide food and cash assistance to Palestinian refugees with increasing pressures and commitments in all of its five workplaces, most recently in the Gaza Strip, after the outbreak of COVID-19. Abu Houli said that the announcement of the emergency appeal to combat the virus launched by the agency last May is about to end and that the budget available to combat with the virus is insufficient to meet the needs of refugees in the camps at all levels of health, education and relief services until the end of the year. To check the news, click here.