Because the begin of the battle, a supplemental funds jumped to $47 million a month from $12 million a month, based on Tom White, UNRWA’s Gaza director.
That extra cash has paid for flour for 350,000 households; 14 million meals gadgets, together with canned meat and packets of dried chickpeas; mattress pads, blankets, and kitchen units; the distribution of 20 million liters of water; and the constructing of latrines.
Many of the support UNWRA distributes is paid for with donor funds, Ms. Touma stated.
Nonetheless, officers stated the move of support has been minuscule compared to the necessity. “It’s absolutely the naked minimal,” Mr. White stated, noting that UNRWA had hoped to boost an extra $166 million month-to-month to handle the disaster.
How a lot cash is left?
Some UNRWA workers have critically essential jobs, together with managing shelters, servicing the water infrastructure, documenting the arrival of support vans, amassing stable waste and offering well being care, Mr. White stated.
Many of the company’s workers are paid from its core funds. However simply 3,000 of the company’s 13,000 workers are presently reporting to work. Most of these not working are lecturers, who characterize the vast majority of the UNRWA work power in Gaza. Faculties have been closed because the begin of the battle and plenty of are used to shelter displaced individuals. Nonetheless, UNRWA has continued to pay the salaries of all its employees.
Now, Mr. White stated, if the funding for the core funds runs out, the prospect that crucial employees abandon their jobs will increase.
“The entire system fails with out them,” he stated.
