The World Bank granted $30 million to West Bank Palestinians made economically vulnerable by COVID-19 or whose impoverished situation was worsened by the pandemic. According to the World Bank at least 68,000 Palestinian household have been harmed economically by the pandemic. Some $20 million of the new grant will go to helping those families through the bank’s Cash Transfer Project, which prior to COVID-19 already had 21,400 households on its ...