UK pledges £6m aid for Gazans
Manchester Evening News|August 08, 2024
THE UK will pledge £6 million towards aid in Gaza, as a Foreign Office minister calls for peace in the Middle East during a visit to Jordan.
UK pledges £6m aid for Gazans

Anneliese Dodds, the International Development Minister, has pledged a package of food, water, health, education and wellbeing support for Gazans.

She is visiting Jordan to meet ministers and discuss how the UK and its ally can work together on brokering a peace in the Israel-Hamas conflict, as well as quelling other regional tensions.

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