Palestinian Authority Announces Emergency Funding for Medicines and Land Settlement Plan

The Palestinian cabinet met on Tuesday to address a series of urgent national issues, including chronic‑disease and neonatal medicines, land‑ownership disputes, the shekel‑fundsavings crisis, and fuel shortages. Director of the Government Contact Center Mohammed Abu Rab said the prime minister ordered rapid procurement of essential drugs, noting that the health sector faces a severe shortage of supplies. More than 300 million shekels have already been transferred to private hospitals and pharmaceutical firms, and a further emergency payment of 450 million shekels is slated for the end of the year.

A land‑settlement programme was also unveiled, targeting the completion of all registration work in Jericho by the end of the year and extending to the northern West Bank with a full rollout expected by 2027. The government began moving the fourth tranche of accumulated shekel surplus to the Israeli central bank as a temporary measure to ease banking pressure, while urging the international community to hold Israel accountable for the currency’s detention.

In parallel, the petroleum authority coordinated with station owners to secure fuel supplies, and a strict order was issued to stop water‑theft on major pipelines. Two press conferences were held with UN agencies such as the World Food Programme and UNDP, warning of a widening famine in Gaza and calling on global actors to take decisive steps against the Israeli occupation and settler violence in the West Bank.