The European Union (EU) has announced that it is allocating an additional 68 million euros for humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip amid the worsening humanitarian crisis.
“This support aims to increase desperately needed assistance in food, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, as well as shelter support,” the bloc said in a statement.
It is added that the EU’s total humanitarian aid for the Palestinians reached 193 million euros this year.
He notes that aid will be channeled through partner organizations that are already helping Palestinians in Gaza and across the region.
Israel has launched an offensive into the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on October 7. Since then, more than 34,350 Palestinians have been killed in the enclave.
Israel’s war has pushed 85 percent of the population of the Gaza Strip into internal displacement with acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60 percent of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.
Israel is accused of genocide before the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop the genocidal acts and take measures to ensure humanitarian aid is provided to civilians in Gaza.
