The United Nations (UN) Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) has warned that if financial support to the institution continues to decrease, it will most likely have to stop all its work in the Gaza Strip and the region after February, where hunger and the humanitarian crisis are deepening.
UNRWA announced that the termination of financial support to that institution at a time when the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is deepening threatens aid to the Palestinians.
“The enormous humanitarian needs of more than two million people in Gaza are at risk of deepening following the decision by 16 donor countries to end financial support to UNRWA,” it said.
It was pointed out that tens of thousands of people had to flee south of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli bombardment last week, and it is pointed out that these people fled to the city of Rafah, where more than 1.4 million Palestinians currently live in difficult conditions.
Most of those people who fled the Israeli attacks had to live in makeshift tents or in open spaces, and people in the city fear that they will no longer be able to receive food and other humanitarian aid from UNRWA.
UNRWA Gaza director Thomas White said: “Social aid has turned into a sea of people fleeing the bombardment.” The press release points out that those who fled from Khan Yunus have already been displaced several times and that UNRWA employees continued their work despite the displacement.
