UN data shared with Reuters showed that 45 visa requests are pending, more than half of which have been on hold for over two months, and several stalled since at least November
Palestinians check the rubble of buildings that were destroyed following an overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 27.Difficulties getting Israeli permission for foreign staff to work in Israel and the Palestinian territories are hampering efforts to get aid into war-shattered Gaza where civilians are facing imminent famine, according to UN data and aid workers.
. The list showed the holdups were affecting 11 UN agencies with 18 visas pending for UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA; six for the World Food Programme; six with the UN children’s agency; and two with the World Health Organization. International non-governmental groups also complain of growing visa difficulties and said some staff had been blocked at the border or received deportation orders.
“There are lots of problems to scale up operations to design or better manage the emergency response,” he said. “We’ve had problems in the past but never this bad.”
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