{"id":459828,"date":"2026-07-13T19:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/13\/palestina-lue-lancia-la-team-gaza-initiative-la-commissione-pronti-a-donare-900-milioni\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:00:21","slug":"palestine-the-eu-launches-the-team-gaza-initiative-the-commission-ready-to-donate-900-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/13\/palestine-the-eu-launches-the-team-gaza-initiative-the-commission-ready-to-donate-900-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine: the EU launches the Team Gaza Initiative. The Commission: ready to donate 900 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Green light for new financial aid to the Palestinian Authority. In Brussels today (13 July), the European Union and the Palestinian Authority agreed on <\/span><\/span>additional funds <\/a>to be channelled to Ramallah via the PEGASE mechanism and via the “Gaza Initiative”, a new initiative bringing together EU Member States and other partners, with the aim of maximising existing funding and promoting new funding for the recovery of the Gaza Strip. Participants include: Spain, Denmark, Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, and Belgium<\/strong><\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The signing ceremony was attended by the European Commissioner for the Mediterranean, Dubravka \u0160uica<\/strong>, and the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Mohammad Mustafa<\/strong>, together with one representative from each of the states participating in the initiative. According to a statement made during the signing ceremony by the European Commission spokesperson, Guillame Mercier<\/strong>, \u201csince 2008, the PEGASE mechanism has been used by 21 donors and has provided over \u20ac3.8 billion\u201d to the beneficiary. New commitments totalling 41.7 million euros were announced today, in addition to the commitments made previously during the first meeting of the Donors\u2019 Group for Palestine in November 2025 and the EU\u2019s (through PEGASE) for 2026 and 2027, amounting to \u20ac310 million.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

“Eight months on from the start of the ceasefire in Gaza, the situation on the ground for civilians is not improving” and at the same time \u201cthe West Bank is under extreme pressure due to settler violence and a financial crisis that is paralysing the Palestinian economy,\u201d \u0160uica stated during the meeting held after the signing. In this context, \u201cthe Palestinian Authority continues to manage its finances in emergency mode, with tax revenues withheld by Israel,\u201d she added. The Commission is therefore proceeding \u201cwith the implementation of our multi-annual programme worth \u20ac1.6 billion for Palestinian recovery and resilience, for this year and the next.\u201d The Commissioner also added that joining \u201c<\/strong><\/span>in support of the \u2018Team Gaza Initiative\u2019\u201d means \u201cthat we are ready to swiftly launch recovery measures totalling nearly \u20ac900 million, or to transfer nearly one billion dollars.\u201d <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today, the Palestinian Authority also presented progress on implementing its “Reform Agenda”, a reform plan agreed with the EU and a prerequisite for receiving EU aid. This includes significant improvements in the tax and public expenditure sectors, public administration reforms and measures to improve the business environment, the digitalisation of public services, and major modernisation of the water and electricity networks. In highlighting the importance of international aid, the Palestinian Prime Minister reiterated that \u201csince October 2023, the Palestinian economy has contracted by 30 per cent,\u201d while \u201c<\/strong>unemployment has risen to 50 per cent, leaving over 500,000 citizens out of work.\u201d<\/strong> This situation has caused the fiscal deficit to reach \u201cunprecedented levels due to Israel\u2019s continued withholding of our revenue from customs duties and the restrictions imposed on our financial and economic system.\u201d Not only. “Over the last 18 months, Israel has also completely suspended regular transfers of revenue from customs duties to our government, severely limiting the Palestinian government\u2019s fiscal capacity,\u201d he concluded. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Since 1994, the EU has provided almost \u20ac30 billion in aid to Palestine. In April 2025, the Commission adopted a comprehensive, multi-annual programme worth \u20ac1.6 billion to support Palestine\u2019s recovery and resilience over the next three years.<\/p>\n

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The second donors\u2019 meeting for Gaza is taking place in Brussels\u2014an international summit to coordinate financial aid and the reconstruction of the territory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":459767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[26261,25890,25815,25794,26180,25871,25801,27194,30062,27671,31310,27493,26869,28376,27337,31578,26527,27179,26870,27310],"class_list":["post-459828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-belgian-cat-en","tag-cipro-en","tag-danimarca-at","tag-dubravka-suica-en","tag-gauze","tag-greece-en","tag-irlanda-en","tag-mediterranean-en","tag-middle-east-en","tag-crisis-middle-east-en","tag-paesi-bassi-en","tag-portugal-en","tag-spain-en","tag-switzerland-and"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459829,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459828\/revisions\/459829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}