Uzbekistan will allocate 1.5 million dollars for the Gaza sector

On October 31, the President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, announced that the country’s authorities will provide financial assistance to the residents of the Gaza Strip through the Middle Eastern agency of the United Nations.

According to the president, “armed clashes between the Israeli army and the Hamas movement are exacerbating the humanitarian crisis, leading to numerous casualties among the peaceful, innocent population. Children and women are dying, people are losing their homes, and are being forced to leave their native houses.”

“I have decided to allocate 1 million 500 thousand dollars to the Middle Eastern agency of the United Nations to provide assistance to the residents of the Gaza Strip,” the head of Uzbekistan stated.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev also expressed sincere condolences and sympathy “to all the families of the deceased from both the Palestinian and Israeli sides.”

Mirziyoyev also expressed “firm solidarity with the people of Palestine” and stated that the authorities of Uzbekistan support the right of Palestinians to establish their independent state “in accordance with previously adopted resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council of the UN.”

So far, no Central Asian countries, including Tajikistan, have made a similar initiative. Although it was previously reported that members of the parliament of Kyrgyzstan would donate a day’s salary to help the Palestinians, such an initiative came from the elected representatives, not from the government of the country.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as a result of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7 of this year, a total of 8,485 people have died, and the number of injured has exceeded 23,000. It is reported that 73 percent of the victims are children, women, and the elderly.