The United Nations: Securing less than 4% of the amount of meeting the needs of the occupied Palestinian land – the seventh day

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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs “Ocha” warned that financing the humanitarian response in the occupied Palestinian land is still a major challenge as less than 4% of the amount needed to meet the basic humanitarian needs there, which is 4 billion dollars.

According to the United Nations Media Center, UN spokesman Stephen Dujarric confirmed that the volume of needs in Gaza in particular is amazing, and it is unfortunate that there is a lack of funding as well, and that the situation of food security in Gaza is at risk of deterioration while all crossings remain to the sector closed in front of the goods.

“The human partners have warned that if the aid continues to be disabled, at least 80 societal kitchens may be forced to suspend its activities and stop work and at the same time, our partners are still distributing food and accurate papers on families, and these distributions may be reduced or suspended until the bakeries continue to receive the necessary supplies to them to continue work and continue to make bread.”

The United Nations spokesman added: “The organization’s food security partners are also distributing vegetable seeds and animal feed to support the restoration of local food production, but he stressed that this also depends on a continuous flow of supplies.”

Dujarric continued: The restrictions imposed on access makes it difficult for schools to resume educational activities, given the lack of educational supplies in the markets … noting that some students managed to return to school after the displaced families evacuated school buildings that were used as shelters, but these facilities lack appropriate furniture, clean water, workforce and basic materials, such as paper and pens.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that preventing the entry of aid to Gaza by the Israeli authorities creates concerns among the residents of the Strip regarding a return to hostilities and threatens life -saving health care services.

The UN agency pointed out that despite the massive flow of human goods to Gaza during the first stage of the ceasefire that started on January 19, this was not enough to fill the needs left by 15 months of war, while supplies convoys were repeatedly banned, disabled or canceled by the Israeli army.

UNICEF spokeswoman, Rosalia Paulin, said: The inability to introduce relief materials to the sector, including vaccines and artificial respirators for premature children, will have severe consequences in real life on children and their parents.

“If we cannot enter this supply, routine vaccination will stop, newborn units will not be able to care for premature infants, these are real consequences that we will deal with very soon if we cannot resume the arrival of aid supplies.”

She stressed that the recent restrictions are “very devastating” because the first stage of the ceasefire “was not merely a stop for hostilities, but rather was a lifeline for families.”

The UCA office had indicated that February showed a slight improvement in the number of children and pregnant and lactating women who consume the minimum required food groups.

The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has allowed relief organizations such as UNICEF to expand their response by introducing the required supplies urgently and starting other basic reforms to rehabilitate the destroyed general infrastructure.

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