The aid organizations are also calling on the German federal government to release funding for UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), and to encourage all parties to the conflict to obey international law, to allow unhindered access for aid supplies, and to implement an immediate and lasting ceasefire.
Since Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel over four months ago there has been war in the Gaza Strip. More than two million people, half of them children, are experiencing a humanitarian disaster, in which there is no safe place for the civilian population. The number of victims is steadily growing – currently more than 28,000 dead and 69,000 injured. In light of this highly alarming situation, humanitarian aid organizations firmly call on the German federal government to take the following measures:
