GAZA – On Tuesday, 21
international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) including
Oxfam, Medecins San Frontieres/Doctors Without
Borders (MSF/DWB), Save the Children, and the
Danish Refugee Council (DRC), condemned the decision of 12 countries to suspend
their UNRWA funding at a time when Gaza is experiencing a humanitarian
catastrophe, Al-Mamlaka TV reported.
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“We feel deep concern and anger at the idea that some of the main
donors agreed to suspend their funding” to
UNRWA while “the humanitarian
catastrophe in Gaza is worsening day by day,” the organizations stated.
US, Canada, the UK, and Japan are among the 12 countries that
announced the suspension of their funding to UNRWA after Israel accused some of
UNRWA’s employees of being involved with Hamas in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on
October 7, 2023. As a result, UNRWA decided to terminate the contracts of 12 of
its employees following the accusations.
The accusations stemming from Israel hope to suspend all UNRWA
activities, aiming to ensure that the agency “is not part of the stage”
following the Israeli war on Gaza.
The organizations stated that
UNRWA is the “main provider of aid”
in Gaza and that the suspension of funding “will affect basic aid to more than
two million civilians, more than half of whom are children, and all of whom
depend on our assistance.”.
The organizations noted that “one million displaced Palestinians
have taken refuge in 154 UNRWA shelters or in their vicinity.” The UN agency
continued to work “in almost impossible conditions” to provide food, drinking
water, and vaccines to the people of Gaza. The NGOs added that they find it
irresponsible “to cut off food supplies to an entire population at a time when
these countries themselves were calling for increased aid to Gaza.”
152 UNRWA employees have been killed since the beginning of the
war, the organizations reminded, while 141 UNRWA facilities were damaged due to
shelling.
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