USAID freeze risks 'deadly consequences' as work halts in Gaza, agencies warn
Aid agencies are sounding the alarm about Gaza after President Donald Trump suspended the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Aid agencies are sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump’s mission to upend the U.S. Agency for International Development, which they say is already hampering efforts to provide assistance to Palestinians reeling from 15 months of war in Gaza.
Medical supplies, food deliveries and other vital humanitarian supplies were already being held up in other parts of the world by the administration’s 90-day freeze on all foreign aid, and humanitarian organizations are warning that the situation in Gaza could become even more dire if there is a similar delay there
The pause was being “felt all over” by humanitarian organizations working on the ground, said Jesse Marks, the senior advocate for the Middle East at Refugees International, a Washington based nonprofit.
“These are like the front-line defense when it comes to humanitarian challenges and providing humanitarian needs,” Marks told NBC News in a phone interview earlier this week. “These are the people who are managing field hospitals, who are actually distributing the aid, getting it from Point A to Point B.”
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