The Minister of Government Communication, the official spokesman for the government, Muhammad Al-Momani, announced on Sunday the exemption of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ("UNRWA") from the cost of textbooks for the current academic year, amounting to more than 3.3 million Jordanian Dinars.

Al-Momani added, during a press conference in Ma'an Governorate following a cabinet session, that the decision comes as a continuation of supporting the agency and enabling it to continue providing essential and necessary services to its beneficiaries, the Palestinian refugees, on the land of the Kingdom.