Associated Press: Gaza aid operations are at risk while reducing the funding of the United States Agency for International Development

News Agency has warned the Associated Press & quot; The American that the financing discounts imposed by the American administration on the American Agency for International Development threaten to stop the small gains achieved by relief workers in combating the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip during the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. For international development, hundreds of millions of dollars from the contractual payments of assistance groups, which made them pay their pockets to keep the fragile ceasefire, according to officials from the US Humanitarian Agency.

& nbsp; Until it was assumed that the US Agency for International Development was supposed to fund a lot of assistance to Gaza with the progress of the ceasefire, and the Trump administration agreed to more than $ 383 million on January 31 to achieve this goal, but since then there have been no confirmed payments for any partners in the Middle East. The promised funds, after spending millions of dollars on supplies and services, and said they could not bear the costs of continuing assistance operations indefinitely. Jeremy Konndic, President of the International Refugee Organization and a former USA International Development Agency & quot; The United States has set very specific and concrete obligations to deliver aid under the ceasefire, but now there is no way to fulfill it as long as the freezing of financing is existing & quot;.

& nbsp; The goals of a large -scale campaign launched by Trump and the Ministry of Governmental efficiency led by billionaire Elon Musk to reduce the extent of the expenses of the federal government.

& nbsp; Trump for global foreign aid, the agency’s team in Gaza had to make a concession to ensure the continued flow of funds allocated for Gaza aid, and they received approval on January 31 to secure more than $ 383 million in financing. Then the American Agency for International Development signed contracts with eight partner organizations, including prominent NGOs and United Nations agencies to give them money to dump supplies and services in Gaza, but the organizations did not receive the promised payments, even though they actually spent millions, expected to compensate the United States Agency for International Development. The International Medical Authority obtained 12 million dollars to continue operations in two hospitals in Gaza, and now the authority has requested to pay more than a million dollars, because the freezing forced the organization to lay off about 700 of its employees and provide basic services only in hospitals. Money. These letters order organizations to & quot; stop immediately & quot; On all activities and avoiding additional spending. Fire, Israel had to allow at least 600 trucks of aid to enter Gaza daily, in addition to 60,000 temporary homes and 200,000 tents. The United States Agency for International Development was supposed to buy 400 temporary houses and Gaza intervene by the end of the first phase of the agreement, and more than 5,200 other homes during the next stage, but this number was reduced to a little more than 1000 homes. The United States Agency for International Development was unable to purchase mobile homes due to the new policies imposed, which require additional purchases. Dave Harden, former Assistant Director of the United States for Democracy Affairs for Democracy, Conflict, Humanitarian Aid and the Agency’s long -standing director in the Palestinian territories, said that & quot; with the fluctuations of the situation for the United States Agency for International Development, the United States risks the loss of its influence & quot; Harden added that the American aid to the Palestinians was never equal to American aid to Israel and was not completely balanced, but it always gave us a seat on the table, and it always helped us to hold real discussions with the Palestinians and the Israelis about what the future might carry, but now we are not simply on the table, and for this I think that the ceasefire is fragile & quot;. & nbsp;

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