USAID halts key project in Gaza
The US Agency for International Development has phased out a crucial $100 million project in Gaza that helped many poor Palestinians make ends meet.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In the early morning hours of Nov. 17, dozens of locals rushed to the Palestinian Youth Center Association, located on Al-Wahda Street in Gaza City, to register for food aid coupons. This has become habitual every 2½ months. This time around, however, there was no registration. There was no aid.
“The last time these families received aid was in August. Family members refuse to believe that the project has finished. They think that we are lying and that we do not want to help them,” said Fayez Ziyara, a member of the association’s board of directors, in an interview with Al-Monitor.
