Haaretz – Adapted
Due to the upcoming suspension of foreign food supplies in the area due to the budget shortfall, the United Nations warns of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
The program assists in providing daily food for around 200 thousand Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and its closure incites considerable dread among Western diplomats who think that it will raise the likelihood of a security escalation among other things. Another UN program is operating in the economically struggling Gaza Strip, where recent occupation violence has made matters worse, according to the UN general secretary.
Three Western diplomats told the newspaper that the Ukraine conflict, which forced many governments to give aid and raise security spending while decreasing donations elsewhere, is the primary cause of the financial difficulties.
According to a Western diplomat who spoke to the newspaper, there is a similar but less pressing threat to the funding of UNRWA, which could experience a financial crisis in the summer and which, according to data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics for the year 2023, will have about 45% of the population—mostly young people—unemployed.
The fundamental concern of the Israeli security establishment is that the UN program's financial struggles will eventually result in a decline in security against the backdrop of the Strip's escalating economic misery. However, others in "Israel" see this as a chance amid the crisis, which might result in a change in the paradigms of international assistance. Instead of offering employment options to the Palestinians, UNRWA and the World Food Assistance Program see it as indirectly contributing to the escalation of  poverty and the global economic crisis.