Det tegner til, at omkring 40 procent af alle palæstinensere i de israelsk-besatte områder nu står uden “tilstrækkelig, sikker og ernæringsrig” kost, noterer FN – samtidig anmodes det internationale samfund om at stille med flere penge.
RAMALLAH, 30 January 2013 (IRIN): Fluctuating prices, poverty and border restrictions mean growing numbers of Palestinians are facing food insecurity this year – one of the key priorities in the humanitarian community’s annual appeal for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
This year’s international Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) is for 401,6 million US dollar, a slight decrease on last year’s 416,7 million, only 68 percent of which was financed.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which helped coordinate the appeal (CAP), estimates that 1,3 million Palestinians do not have enough food.
The latest figures show the number of households without sufficient access to food has risen by 7 percent since 2011, a trend which – if continued – would have left an estimated 41 percent of Palestinians without the necessary resources to get sufficient, safe and nutritious (nærende) food at the end of 2012.
“Palestinian wages have not kept pace with inflation… Many poor Palestinians have exhausted their coping mechanisms (taking on loans, cutting back consumption) and are now much more vulnerable to small price increases than they were,” said a recent World Food Programme bulletin.
According to the CAP, the situation is further worsened by restrictions on the movement of people and goods, which have resulted in higher prices of basic food commodities and reduced the purchasing power of many vulnerable families.
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