“The contribution responds to the call of UN Secretary-General António Guterres to help the population in the face of the humanitarian catastrophe in this Palestinian territory and is in line with feminist foreign policy,” said Interim Chancellor Gloria de la Fuente. .
The Chile Fund Against Hunger and Poverty donation will be channeled through the United Nations Population Fund.
This assistance is in addition to additional assistance provided to Palestinian refugees in October.
For nearly three months, Israeli bombings and attacks on the Gaza Strip left more than 22,000 dead and 57,000 injured, while nearly two million were forced from their homes and residents suffered from shortages of water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government for the murder of children in Gaza.
“Inhumane brutality by Netanyahu and his government,” Boric wrote on social media after learning of a UN report that more minors have died in this Palestinian territory than in any other war in a year.
The president posted a photo of the Gaza Strip, which was completely destroyed by the bombings, on his Instagram account.
In October, the President called his ambassador to Israel, Jorge Carvajal, for consultations regarding Tel Aviv's unacceptable violations of international humanitarian law.
Boric took part in the Palestinian community's traditional Christmas ceremony, which paid tribute to the victims of the Israeli attacks.
Chile is home to the world's largest Palestinian diaspora outside the Arab states, estimated at just over half a million people.
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