Our meeting with MP Florence Eshalomi 29 January 2025

We were very grateful today for the meeting we attended with Florence Eshalomi.  Florence has helped on several occasions to raise questions in the House of Commons on behalf of our friends in the Aida Youth Centre, in November 2023 when Anas was arrested and detained and again yesterday, in a debate on UNWRA.  Several of our members had written to her in recent weeks about this issue.

Today we discussed with her how we can provide her and her research team with the best information that will help her  raise further questions on UNWRA funding in the West Bank, what our Government might to do move the Israeli Government to reverse its decisions and also determine how best our Government might increase and better use its aid programmes in the region to support projects left unfunded by UNWRA. 

We were greatly encouraged by the meeting and by the depth of knowledge that Florence had of the situation and look forward to maintaining contact and sharing with her more of the realities of life in Bethlehem and the Aida Youth Centre in particular.   Deborah  Arnott,  Steve Adamson  and Pat Gaffney met with Florence

 

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