{"id":4235,"date":"2011-06-08T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:03:02","slug":"epalestine-aida-restricting-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2011\/06\/epalestine-aida-restricting-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"AIDA: Restricting Aid &#8211; The Challenges of Delivering Assistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <span style=\" font-size:10pt\"> Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA)&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">  <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <span style=\" font-size:10pt\"> June 8, 2011<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">  <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"> <span style=\" font-size:14pt\"> <strong>Restricting Aid &#8211; The Challenges of Delivering Assistance in  the Occupied Palestinian Territory&#160;&#160; <\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">  <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <span style=\" font-size:10pt\"> New report says Israeli restrictions increase costs, prevent aid from getting to those who  need it most&#160;&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">  <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <span style=\" font-size:10pt\"> Every month, aid and development agencies in the OPT are spending $375,000 just to work  around restrictions on movement and access. While the restrictions add up to an annual cost  of at least $4.5 million for donors and their taxpayers, the highest price is paid by people in  the OPT according to a new report released by the Association of International Development  Agencies (AIDA), a coalition of more than eighty international aid and development agencies  said today.&#160;&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">  <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <span style=\" font-size:10pt\"> In the 13 page report,  <\/span> <\/font> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aidajerusalem.org\/userfiles\/2011060832045.pdf\"> <font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\"> <span style=\" font-size:10pt\"> <u>&quot;Restricting Aid &#8211; The Challenges of Delivering Assistance in the  Occupied Palestinian Territory,&quot;<\/u> <\/span> <\/font> <\/a> <font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <span style=\" font-size:10pt\"> &#160;the agencies call on the international community to urge  Israel to remove the barriers impeding aid workers and related goods from moving freely to  and between the communities they serve.&#160; 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June 8, 2011 Restricting Aid &#8211; The Challenges of Delivering Assistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territory&#160;&#160; New report says Israeli restrictions increase costs, prevent aid from getting to those who need it most&#160;&#160; Every month, aid and development agencies in the OPT are spending $375,000 just to work around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9645,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions\/9645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}