"Save the Children" speaks out on Gaza suffering

Sue Smith, Regional Director of Save the Children UK, said, "Gaza needs more financial support, but donor governments and Israel must first and immediately loosen the stranglehold they have on funds that already exist.

"Because of the freeze on aid and tax revenues, and the detention of [Palestinian Authority] ministers, basic health and sanitation services are collapsing, threatening a public health disaster, and the education system is in chaos from top to bottom.

"The [Palestinian] Minister of Education is being indefinitely detained, teachers are striking because they haven't been paid for months, and some schools are still being used as camps for displaced people.

"It is an outrage that the major donors have allowed children to suffer like this for months on end."

[ReliefWeb]