“UNRWA”: Gaza needs more food supplies to avoid famine

Gaza – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stressed, on Thursday, the urgent need to provide more food supplies to avoid famine in the Gaza Strip.

This came in an interview conducted by UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma with Al Jazeera satellite channel, and the UN agency published its content on its account on the “X” platform.

The spokeswoman stressed that “more food supplies are needed to avoid famine in Gaza, and these supplies are available to UNRWA.”

She warned that “the UN agency may stop its operations within the next few weeks if international funding remains suspended.”

Touma concluded her speech by saying: “Without UNRWA, there would be no supplies, and no aid convoys.”

Since January 26, 18 countries and the European Union have suspended their funding for UNRWA, namely the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Italy, Britain, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, New Zealand, Iceland, Romania, Estonia and Sweden.

The decision to suspend funding came against the backdrop of Israeli allegations that UNRWA employees in Gaza participated in an attack on settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, while the agency announced that it was investigating these allegations.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving tens of thousands of civilian victims, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and massive destruction of infrastructure, which led to Tel Aviv appearing before the International Court of Justice to be tried on charges of Genocide.

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