United Nations member states provided approximately $551 million in response to the urgent appeal launched for Gaza, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
However, this amount represents only about 46% of the required response, which is $1.2 billion.
In a statement released on Wednesday, OCHA emphasized the occupied Palestinian territory Humanitarian Fund (oPt HF) launched a US$40 million allocation on 19 December in line with the updated Flash Appeal launched by the UN and its partners to implement a response plan in support of 2.2 million people in the Gaza Strip and 500,000 in the West Bank.
It added: "This allocation represents the first phase of planned responses for the evolving situation."
UN said earlier: "This estimation does not cover the cost of early recovery and reconstruction, which will be estimated once the security situation allows for appropriate assessments to be undertaken."
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