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UNRWA presence vital for aid delivery in Gaza, meeting speaker says
Summary
A meeting speaker said UNRWA is the primary agency able to deliver humanitarian services in the Gaza Strip and urged sustaining its operations to reach civilians with health, water, sanitation, education and food aid.
A staff member said UNRWA is the only agency with the capacity to deliver humanitarian services in the Gaza Strip and urged maintaining its presence so aid — including health care, education, sanitation and food distribution — can reach civilians.
The staff member, speaking at the meeting, said UNRWA has long been active in Gaza and coordinates much humanitarian activity there. “We’re the largest humanitarian agency on the ground in the Gaza Strip,” the staff member said, adding that services such as health care, pre-war education, sanitation, water in shelters, food delivery and distribution “go through” UNRWA.
The speaker also said Palestinians in Gaza “have lost a lot of hope” and have diminished faith in the international community, and that they look to UNRWA for assistance. The remarks described UNRWA’s role alongside unnamed United Nations partners and other humanitarian organizations but emphasized UNRWA’s local presence and history in Gaza.
No motions, votes or formal actions regarding UNRWA or aid operations were recorded in the transcript excerpts provided. The discussion in the record is a statement about operational capacity and humanitarian need, not a policy decision.
The transcript excerpts used for this article contain the speaker’s statements in sequence and do not include identifying information for the speaker. The article attributes direct quotations to a generic “staff member,” the label used because the transcript does not name the speaker.
