Shana Lowe

Over two million innocent people trapped in the prison that is the Gaza Strip.

And now we're seeing aid continue to be obstructed and withheld.

I want to be a normal kid.

I want to go to school.

They were going to upload it to social media.

It's a very real threat to our staff and it's a safety issue for our staff to ensure that their identities are protected and to ensure that they and their families are protected.

Secondly, many of our organizations, if not all, receive money from the EU, are based in the EU or are receiving funds from EU member states.

And the EU has very strict privacy laws that would prevent us from providing these staff lists.

Well, of course they have a right to know who's going into the Gaza Strip, and we've never refused to provide them with the names of our international staff who are entering.

And all of our international staff who are entering Gaza have their names submitted on lists that Israel approves to allow them in.

The issue for us is around the private data of our local staff.

in a context where we've seen hundreds of aid workers be killed over two years of hostilities.

We have mechanisms to ensure that aid is not diverted and our donors conduct thorough audit of the work that we're doing to ensure that what we're doing is what we say we're doing.

There was one incident this year where armed men took contingency supplies from the Norwegian Refugee Council and we immediately reported that to the appropriate channels and publicly acknowledged it.

But considering the amount of aid that we have been delivering over the course of the last two years and the last 15 years in Gaza, the amount of aid that at least that we have handled, very, very little of it has been diverted.

It's a catastrophe.

Over 2 million innocent people trapped in the prison that is the Gaza Strip who faced two years of bombardment, tremendous devastation and destruction.

And now we're seeing, as we've seen over the last two years, aid continue to be obstructed and withheld.

The Norwegian Refugee Council itself has been unable to bring any aid directly into Gaza for over nine months.

And so this is just a continuation of the obstruction that we've faced.