World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$4 million donation from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Campaign for the Relief of the Palestinian People in Gaza. “This is a timely and extremely welcome donation that will help the people of Gaza in their hour of need,” said Christine van Nieuwenhuyse, WFP Representative in the occupied Palestinian territory in a statement uploaded on WFP website, adding that the money would be used to purchase wheat flour, vegetable oil, sugar and salt. The statement said the donation would be used immediately to provide urgently needed food assistance to the people in the occupied Gaza Strip. The statement pointed out that WFP is providing food assistance to more than 265,000 people in Gaza in 2009, and that the cost of the humanitarian operation was expected to rise due to additional needs caused by the current situation in the Strip. The statement informed that the people in Gaza are facing growing difficulties locating the food they need to feed their families, as few commodities are available on local markets, and humanitarian organizations are struggling to operate under the current insecure conditions. It is noteworthy that WFP is a major world humanitarian organization and a leader among UN organizations in fighting hunger.
