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Intel: US announces $15 million in aid to West Bank, Gaza

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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the new US ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to the media at a socially distanced briefing on March 1, 2021, in New York City. — Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The United States will provide $15 million in humanitarian assistance to Gaza and the West Bank, in what is part of a larger Biden administration effort to mend frayed relations with the Palestinians. 

The funds provided by the US Agency for International Development will help support Catholic Relief Services’ COVID-19 response, as well as emergency food assistance in the impoverished Palestinian territories. 

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