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Let UNRWA Work: Stop the Engineered Starvation of Gaza

Urge your elected officials to cosponsor the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act, a bill that recognizes UNRWA’s indispensable role as the backbone of the humanitarian operation in Gaza and calls on the US government to restore funding for the Agency’s lifesaving work.

The rapidly escalating—and entirely preventable—humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip is driven by deliberate political choices.

Palestinian families in Gaza are starving while trucks of food sit just miles away, blocked at the border. The latest US-Israel political aid scheme, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is failing catastrophically.

GHF was never meant to save lives. It was built by Israel and the United States to sideline UNRWA, weaponize hunger and aid distribution, and force Palestinians into a shrinking area of Gaza near the Egyptian border, ahead of mass expulsion.

GHF’s stated plan restricts aid to a handful of distribution points—”camps”—where Gaza’s starving, injured, and traumatized population is being forcibly concentrated. We have witnessed the horrifying consequences of this strategy: harrowing, chaotic scenes of Palestinians walking miles in search of food, only to be corralled into fenced pens like animals and shot by the Israeli military.

There is nothing humanitarian about GHF. It is a deathtrap.

UNRWA is a lifeline. Before Israel’s blockade, UNRWA operated 400 aid distribution sites across Gaza. With over 75 years of proven humanitarian service, UNRWA is the only agency capable of responding at the scale this moment demands and preventing mass starvation—if allowed to do its job. The United States remains the only major UN member state that continues to withhold critical funding during this humanitarian catastrophe.

The UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act of 2025 affirms UNRWA’s indispensable role in the humanitarian response in Gaza and the critical need for continued provision of services to Palestine refugees in all its fields of operation: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and the West Bank (including East Jerusalem).

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