{"id":233974,"date":"2025-02-07T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/usaid-turmoil-threatens-key-aid-supplies-to-gaza-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:48:11","slug":"usaid-turmoil-threatens-key-aid-supplies-to-gaza-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/usaid-turmoil-threatens-key-aid-supplies-to-gaza-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"USAID Turmoil Threatens Key Aid Supplies to Gaza, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Trump administration\u2019s efforts to downsize<\/a> the United States Agency for International Development have endangered the funding for food, tents and medical treatment for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, according to U.S. officials and workers for humanitarian groups funded by the agency.<\/p>\n

Officials said that the threats to the aid supply chain risked destabilizing the fragile cease-fire agreement between Hamas and Israel, which is contingent on the weekly entry of 4,200 aid and commercial trucks to the territory.<\/p>\n

With almost all U.S.A.I.D. staff set to be placed on administrative leave by Friday night<\/a>, there will be only a handful of officials left to sign off on and audit hundreds of millions of dollars in outstanding payments to the agency\u2019s partners on the ground in Gaza, raising alarm about how those groups will fund their operations.<\/p>\n

Of more than 200 officials in the agency\u2019s Mideast team, just 21 will remain in post to manage its entire regional portfolio, according to an internal agency email reviewed by The New York Times. The team that organizes emergency aid supplies in dozens of crisis zones around the world each year, of which Gaza was just one, is down to just 70 staff members from more than 1,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n