Italy pledges millions to support Palestinians at Rome meeting

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa Prime Minister was welcomed by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Saturday.

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00:00 Italy pledged tens of millions of euros to support Palestine as they hosted the Palestinian

00:07 prime minister.

00:09 Italy`s prime minister, Giorgio Meloni, received Palestinian prime minister, Mohammad Mustafa,

00:14 in Rome. During the trip, Mustafa also met with the Italian foreign minister, Antonio

00:19 Tajani.

00:20 Italy announced new funding for the Palestinian population, a total of 35 million euro.

00:27 We have negotiated that it will lead to mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestinian

00:34 state. Unilateral initiatives are not useful to the solution of the conflict because the

00:41 main objective is peace. It will lead to the birth of a Palestinian state that recognizes

00:48 Israel and is recognized.

00:51 Five million of the new package will go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,

00:55 while the other 30 million will head to the Food for Gaza initiative.

01:01 Israel previously accused the UNRWA of collaborating with Hamas during the October 7 attack, but

01:08 a UN report found no evidence of this.

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