The Council of Ministers plans to approve on Tuesday an authorization to allocate 925,000 euros to the. The objective is to finance the essential and protection services of people with disabilities who are refugees in the West Bank, as a consequence of Israel’s attacks on the Palestinian population.
The proposal has been presented by the Ministry of Social Rights, led by Pablo Bustinduy, to focus “the damages caused by the attacks of Israeli military forces,” they indicate in a press release.
The money will go to people with disabilities who have been forced to take refuge in the West Bank, both those that already had it before the attacks and those that acquired it as a result of these, to suffer amputations, loss of limbs, blindness, among other sequelae. The aid will come through integrated financial assistance and psychosocial services, health and rehabilitation. Access to new structures such as accessible baths and community protection systems as mobile units will be offered, they indicate from the Ministry.
Benefits will affect, especially, more vulnerable groups such as women and children with disabilities.
Since October 7, 2023, near, according to the Figures of the UNRWA. The organization’s work teams have also provided various services to almost 24,000 people with disabilities. In December, the UN agency head for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, denounced that Gaza was the place in the world with the highest number of children amputated per inhabitant.
At the beginning of this year, Save The Children warned in a statement that an average of 475 children a month have suffered disabilities that could last a lifetime, as a consequence of the use of explosive weapons. For its part, the estimated that one in four people injured in Gaza presents injuries that will require rehabilitation services.
In November 2024, the Ministry of Social Rights also donated 860,000 euros to UNRWA. Then, the objective was to attend to the people of Gaza victims of the Israeli attacks. With that help, services were financed to attend traumas and urgencies, reconstruction of members and other specialized surgeries. In addition, it was also used for subsidies and hospitalizations, multidisciplinary rehabilitation services, assistance devices or artificial lameteries. In March of the same year, José Manuel Albares, head of Foreign Affairs, said that.
This year’s contribution follows from a contribution of 725,000 euros from the General Directorate of Agenda 2030 and another of 200,000 euros of the Royal Disability Board.
