A boy walking near a displaced persons camp near Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, on July 11, 2026. Photo Bachar Taleb / AFP
Donor countries aiding the Palestinians are ready to put nearly 900 million euros on the table to help rebuild Gaza, but are waiting for the right conditions, the European Commission announced Monday.
"We will present today the first tranche, amounting to nearly 900 million euros," said European Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Suica. "We now need conditions on the ground to allow our aid to reach the people of Gaza," she immediately added.
The funds — which include money already pledged for aid to Gaza — would be used to clear the debris left by the Israeli war and to rebuild basic services such as access to water and sanitation.
Despite a "cease-fire coming" into effect in Gaza in October after two years of genocidal war, at least 1,100 people have been killed by ongoing Israeli attacks, according to the local Health Ministry, against the besieged territory, which remains under occupation and an Israeli blockade on humanitarian aid.
"The population does not even have the bare minimum to survive, and international NGOs are working under impossible conditions," said European Commissioner for crisis situations Hadja Lahbib.
Around 65 delegations are attending this donors' conference in Brussels, one of the main goals of which is to take stock of the reforms undertaken by the Palestinian Authority.
The latter and the European Union have agreed on a program of reforms aimed at consolidating the Palestinian Authority as part of the two-state solution, which the EU supports.
These reforms include, among other measures, significantly improving the functioning of the budgetary and public spending sectors, fighting corruption and strengthening "public governance," according to an EU statement.
