Abdeljaber said the UN agency would continue its aid to 140,000 people in Gaza and the West Bank, adding that the decision to suspend was taken to protect those at highest risk of not being able to afford their own food. Are.
He added that unless the funds are received, WFP will be forced to completely suspend food and cash aid until August.
Dozens of Palestinians protested outside the WFP offices in Gaza City to protest the decision, chanting “No to Hunger”.
Faraj al-Masri, a father of two whose family receives vouchers worth $41.20 a month, said, “Vouchers are life, the message they send us is equivalent to death because there is no other source of income.”
In Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Jamalat el-Dabor, whose family receives vouchers worth $164.80 per month, said they would “starve” because her husband was ill and unemployed.