The foundation added that it has been monitoring and working closely with its partners on updates about delivery of aid to the beneficiaries in Gaza.
This included a session for various donors and donor organizations where the foundation’s partners provided updates and responded to questions via a video call.
Masagos, who is also Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, said that RLAF will hold another round of fund-raising for Gaza during the upcoming Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
The sum of US$8,114,422, collected from October 19 to November 17, is the highest raised by the Rahmatan Lil Alamin (Blessings to all) Foundation, or RLAF.
Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli said at the sidelines of an event at the Assyafaah Mosque on March 9 that the sum has been dispensed to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA.
“This new fund-raising campaign aims to rally Singaporeans to continue to donate as the situation in Gaza has become direr,” said Masagos, who added that the campaign was slated to take place from March 20 to 26.
According to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, Israel’s ensuing bombardment of the small Palestinian enclave of 2.3 million people has killed more than 30,800 people.
Nations and humanitarian groups have been racing to bring more aid to Palestinians, with the population on the brink of famine. The UN had earlier estimated that 300,000 Palestinians are living with little food or clean water.
Singapore has sent a medical team to treat civilian casualties who have been taken to Egypt, and supplies such as medicine, sanitation items and food for civilians.
Singapore Red Cross had earlier sent medical supplies, food and water worth at least US$250,000 to civilians in Gaza.
