Palestinian Ambassador to France Salman Harfie told the reporters that the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, lied about the United States providing a special grant of $5 million to the Palestinians to fight against coronavirus.
On Thursday, Friedman wrote on Twitter that the US is providing the Palestinian Authority with $ 5 million to fight the coronavirus, a US grant will be given to hospitals and poor families.
“He’s lying, we don’t know what they’re going to spend money on, but certainly not on Palestinian health care and hospitals. Anyone who really wants to donate money, can directly contact a representative of the Palestinian people and say: I want to resume assistance, I was wrong. The United States did not give anything to the Palestinian people, we did not get a cent”, – Harvey said.
He added that the United States allocated $ 3.5 million to non-governmental organizations that work with Washington.
“The United States also did not renew its assistance to the World Health Organization, they cannot pretend that, as Friedman said, they gave something to the Palestinians”, – the ambassador said.
Palestine refused to contact the United States after President Donald Trump announced the “deal of the century” to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which provides for the annexation by Israel of part of the Palestinian territories.
Relations between Ramallah and Washington have steadily deteriorated since the United States terminated financial assistance to the Palestinians and the transfer of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.