• Priorities at UNGA According to the United States

  • Sep 18 2024
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Priorities at UNGA According to the United States

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  • Occupied Palestinian Territory
    The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that today its team was able to reach northern Gaza for the first time in four weeks. OCHA was leading an inter-agency assessment mission to Gaza City. However, they were only able to reach the north after being forced to wait for more than five hours before and at the Israeli checkpoint on the Coastal Road.
    OCHA warns that access to the north remains extremely limited for aid workers from the UN and other organizations. During the first half of this month, out of nearly 50 missions led by seven different UN agencies – all of which had been fully coordinated with the Israeli authorities – only a quarter could cross into the north through the Israeli checkpoints along Wadi Gaza.
    Even when these missions could cross, they often faced impediments along the way.
    Some convoys were stopped at gunpoint, shot at, or forced to wait for hours in the middle of a war zone. These incidents posed unacceptable risks to our staff’s safety and prevented these missions from completing their work. OCHA stresses that when humanitarian missions are not facilitated, it deprives Palestinians in Gaza of the food, the water, the shelter, health and other services essential for their survival. People in Gaza need more supplies, including basic items such as soap, to enter the Strip. It is also critical that these humanitarian goods and services reach all parts of Gaza, wherever needed. Without exception, security assurances provided to aid organizations and humanitarian missions must be reliable and fully respected.

    Haiti
    Turning to Haiti, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that violence continues to displace families in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.
    The latest clashes between armed groups in the neighbourhoods of Cité Soleil and Delmas displaced more than 2,000 people last week – and that is just in two days, between September 11 and 13.
    More than 170,000 people are now displaced in the capital. While most of them are staying with host families, three new temporary sites have sprung up.
    We and our partners in Haiti continue to support people in need across the country, including by providing food, water and sanitation as well as health care support.
    The International Organization for Migration also continues to distribute blankets, solar lamps and kitchen kits to displaced people.
    And as the new school year is approaching, the World Food Programme plans to provide school meals to 495,000 children. Many of these meals will be sourced from local smallholder farmers.
    The $674 million Humanitarian Response Plan for Haiti is currently only 39 per cent funded with $263 million actually received in our bank account. We continue to call for increased support for the humanitarian response to help the Haitian people.

    Ukraine
    In Ukraine, we are told by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs that overnight attacks have left hundreds of thousands of people without power in the Sumy region in the north of the country. According to local authorities and the regional power company, 280,000 consumers – which include households, public facilities and businesses – were left without power. Water supply and critical services were also impacted. Water facilities and hospitals, and other civilian infrastructure, are right now running on backup systems.
    Despite the challenging circumstances, humanitarian organizations continue to provide assistance across the country. In the first seven months of the year we, along with our partners, provided aid to 6.2 million people.
    Nearly 2.9 million people received food aid; 1.4 million received health services, and 1 million benefitted from winter energy support and the distribution of emergency shelter materials and essential items.
    The $3 billion Humanitarian Response Plan is currently only 44 per cent funded with $1.37 billion received, leaving a significant gap in addressing the urgently emergency needs and the preparations for winter.

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