International Aid Agencies
International aid agencies will need to play a key role in this crisis.
Foreign aid groups and donors have difficulty in providing aid because
of the damaging Israeli policies, for example, the stringent limits on
what can be brought into Gaza, the growing settlements, and the land
resources appropriated to support them in the West Bank. Millions of
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank struggle to live with
pride under Israeli occupation, facing movement restrictions, political
divisions, and recurrent escalations of hostilities. The ongoing
“large-scale security, political and economic unrest in the West Bank
and the 15-year sea, land and air blockade on the Gaza Strip have
resulted in economic stagnation, loss of land and restricted trade and
access to resources.”11World Food Programme, accessed April 4,
2023, https://www.wfp.org/countries/palestine. The World Food
Programme indicated that 1.84 million people are food insecure from a
total population of 5.3 million people. 63% of the people in the Gaza
Strip are food insecure.22Ibid. Moreover, “nearly one-third of
the registered Palestine refugees, more than 1.5 million individuals,
live in 58 recognized Palestine refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, the
Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East
Jerusalem.”33United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East, accessed April 4, 2023,
https://www.unrwa.org/palestine-refugees. The United Nations and
World Food Programme need to spread the word so people and other
organizations know that the problem exists, and that it is serious. No
one is acknowledging that there is a problem in Palestine and that is
why the violence has never stopped.