United Nations, May 14 -- More than half of the population in Gaza is depending on the international community for food aid, the director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said citing a 'near ten-fold increase' in need.
According to UNRWA, it must secure an additional $60 million by June to continue providing food to more than one million Palestine refugees in Gaza, including some 620,000 'abject poor' who cannot cover their basic food needs and are surviving on $1.6 per day. The funds are also needed to cover the severely challenged 390,000 'absolute poor", who survive on about $3.5 per day.
UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions and financial support, which h...