David Burrowes – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Burrowes on 2016-01-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how aid disbursed by her Department’s Palestinian Programme tackles anti-Israeli incitement.

Mr Desmond Swayne

The UK deplores incitement on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We monitor any allegations of incitement closely and raise instances with both the Palestinian Authority and Government of Israel. Our financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority is governed by a Memorandum of Understanding which reaffirms the PA’s commitment to non-violence and a negotiated solution to the conflict. We accompany our support for UNRWA with stringent attention to their neutrality and values of peace. UNRWA continues to implement a human rights, conflict resolution and tolerance policy, which applies to all its schools in its five fields of operation, supplementing the host country curriculums. We take allegations of incitement very seriously and raise them with UNRWA whenever appropriate.