The European Union is the largest donor to the Palestinian Authority.
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- The most explicit confirmation ('We are the largest donor...') comes from an EEAS press release dated 2026-07-13, five days after the session date, which the MEP could not have known; however, earlier primary sources (European Commission press releases of 2023 and 2025) already establish the same fact before the session.
- The Commission's phrasing is 'largest/biggest provider of external assistance to the Palestinians', which flows largely to the Palestinian Authority through PEGASE; strictly bilateral donor rankings can vary year to year (e.g. US contributions), but the EU's collective position as largest donor is the official EU position and widely reported by secondary sources.
- The Commission press release ip_23_6745 refers to almost €1.2 billion of EU assistance to Palestinians for 2021–2024, a multi-year envelope rather than a single-year figure.