590 thousand US dollars received by ‘Gaza Fund’.

An additional sum of 590,000 US dollars has been received by the
‘Children of Gaza Fund,’ which was established by President Ranil
Wickremesinghe to provide basic needs for children displaced due to the
current military situation in the Gaza Strip.
The President’s Media Division said that the funds were officially handed
over to the Palestinian government yesterday at the Presidential Secretariat
under the patronage of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The official documents were presented by President Wickremesinghe to
the Palestinian Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Dr. Zuhair M.H. Zaid, and the
Resident Representative of the UNDP in Sri Lanka, Azusa Kubota.
Following a proposal by President Ranil Wickremesinghe during the
Cabinet meeting on the 4
th of March, the government of Sri Lanka agreed
to provide financial assistance of 1 million US dollars to cover the
essential expenses of nearly one million children trapped in the Gaza Strip
due to the war. The Cabinet of Ministers approved this grant.