The Danish Refugee Council is one of the few international NGOs with specific expertise in forced displacement. With Israel’s military offensive in Gaza displacing an entire population multiple times — and a slew of other crises uprooting millions — that expertise is needed perhaps now more than ever.
Charlotte Slente, secretary-general of DRC — which manages 37 sites on the ground in Gaza for internally displaced persons — calls it an “extremely dire situation.”
“In Gaza City, which is being bombarded now quite heavily, we have around half a million people staying there, with no possibility of going anywhere, and that is because [humanitarian] sites are overcrowded,” Slente told Devex on the sidelines of the 80th U.N. General Assembly last week.