Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa today discussed with the World Food Program (WFP) Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau the intensification of relief efforts for the Gaza Strip.
During a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in the occupied West Bank of Ramallah, Prime Minister Muatafa and Skau, who also serves as the WFP Chief Operating Officer, discussed the intensification of relief efforts and increasing the volume of relief aid allowed into the war-torn Strip in addition to the coordination of joint action in the West Bank and Gaza.
Prime Minister Mustafa learned from Skau about the WFP’s efforts aimed at providing desperately needed humanitarian relief to the West Bank and Gaza and they discussed raising the percentage of beneficiaries receiving food parcels from the WFP given the ongoing Israeli genocidal war against the Palestinian people.
Premier Mustafa stressed the importance of maintaining coordination between government and relief actors, developing a joint action mechanism to ensure the delivery of aid to all parts of the Strip as well as to beneficiaries across the occupied West Bank, particularly in Bedouin and disadvantaged communities in Area C, which accounts for 60 percent of the West Bank.
He called on the WFP to send relief aid that is purchased from the Palestinian market in the West Bank to Gaza, whenever possible, as a means to support the Palestinian economy given the harsh financial conditions the Palestinian people have being going through.
The meeting was attended by the Minister of Social Development Samah Hamad and the Mijister of Relief Affairs Basel Nasser.
Source: WAFA
