Gaza, Washington (Union, agencies)
USAID Administrator Samantha Power held a meeting with international donor partners to discuss existing diplomatic and humanitarian efforts to support Gaza.
In addition to the United States, representatives of the UAE, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Cyprus, Ireland, Kuwait, Jordan, Japan, Sweden, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Qatar, the United Kingdom, and the European Union participated in the meeting.
During the meeting, according to a statement issued last night by Shigal Bolivarti, the official spokeswoman for the US Agency for International Development, Power stressed the horrific humanitarian consequences of the ongoing hostilities in Gaza, especially in Rafah, pointing out that the military operations led by the Israeli army have caused the displacement of about one million people from Rafah.
She called for the need for Israel to take more measures to protect civilians, stressing the urgent need for aid related to food, shelter, health care, protection, water, hygiene and sanitation for the Palestinians in Gaza, especially in light of the risks of imminent famine.
Power urged donor partners to consider increasing their commitments to support the delivery of life-saving aid, including through contributions of additional funding to the United Nations and non-governmental organizations.
Power encouraged donors to participate in the multinational humanitarian sea corridor by making a financial pledge or providing in-kind assistance, but she stressed that land routes remain the most effective way to deliver aid.
The official spokeswoman noted that the donors participating in the meeting agreed on the need to improve the operational conditions inside Gaza that limit the effective distribution of aid to vulnerable communities, including by significantly improving Israel’s conflict avoidance mechanisms, given that they are necessary mechanisms that allow humanitarian workers to distribute aid in an appropriate manner. security.
The official spokesperson revealed that the meeting also discussed ways to continue supporting and advocating for the issue of keeping all aid delivery routes open and exploiting them to the maximum extent, especially land routes, in order to ensure the safe and effective delivery of aid to affected civilians in Gaza.
In another context, the US Department of Defense (the Pentagon) announced that repairing the floating pier that the United States built in Gaza to bring in humanitarian aid will take more than a week.
This came according to Sabrina Singh, deputy spokesperson for the Pentagon, in a press conference, in which she said that parts of the floating dock that collapsed on May 24 were collected with the help of Israel and transported to the port of Ashdod for repair.
Singh stated that the cost of building the floating dock amounted to $320 million, and that the process of repairing it would take more than a week.
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