By the Editor
The United States of America has announced that it would provide an additional $100 million in critical humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in dire need throughout Gaza and the West Bank.
A release by the Press Office of the United States Agency for International Development, USAID indicated that the announcement was made earlier, today by Samantha Power, the Administrator of the agency.
Power was quoted to have said, “This funding will support USAID’s partner the UN World Food Program (WFP) to deliver urgently needed food assistance in Gaza and the West Bank”; adding that “Nearly the entire population in Gaza is facing emergency levels of food insecurity and is in need of assistance, especially the most vulnerable, including children and pregnant and nursing women”.
According to her, through this additional assistance, USAID would also provide logistics support for the safe and efficient delivery of lifesaving humanitarian aid across Gaza amid a persistently challenging and insecure operating environment.
She added that the U.S. continues to prioritize the protection of civilians and aid workers, who are operating at incredibly high risk to deliver aid to people in need throughout Gaza and the West Bank.
The release noted that this new funding, provided under the recently passed bipartisan National Security Supplemental, brings the total humanitarian aid that the United States has announced for Palestinians since the beginning of the conflict to more than $774 million.
