As humanitarian organizations, we are deeply concerned and outraged that some of the main donors have agreed to suspend their funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which is the primary aid provider for millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the region. This news comes as the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza worsens by the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4916,"template":"","actualite_type":[10],"actualite_sujet":[],"action_combat":[],"mdm_pays":[],"class_list":["post-4915","actualite","type-actualite","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","actualite_type-international-actions"],"acf":{"mise_en_avant":false,"chapeau":"As humanitarian organizations, we are deeply concerned and outraged that some of the main donors have agreed to suspend their funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which is the primary aid provider for millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the region. This news comes as the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza worsens by the day.","cta_type":"aucun","cta_lien":"","contenu":"
The suspension of funding by donor countries will have an incidence on the vital aid provided to over two million civilians, more than half of whom are children, all of whom depend on UNRWA\u2019s assistance in Gaza. Faced with Israel\u2019s relentless and indiscriminate bombings and the deliberate deprivation of aid in Gaza, the population is confronted with imminent famine and epidemics.<\/p>\n
We commend the swift investigation conducted by UNRWA into the alleged involvement of a few UN staff members in the October 7 attacks. We are shocked by this irresponsible decision to cut off supplies to an entire population, made by countries that themselves called for the strengthening of aid to Gaza and the protection of humanitarian workers in the course of their work. This decision comes even as the International Court of Justice has just ordered the implementation of immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 152<\/a> UNRWA employees have already been killed and 141 UNRWA facilities have been damaged<\/a> by bombings. UNRWA is the largest humanitarian agency in Gaza, and other agencies present on the ground cannot replace the humanitarian aid that UNRWA provides<\/strong>. If funding suspensions are maintained, we risk witnessing the total collapse of the already very limited humanitarian response in Gaza.<\/p>\n