Safety Net for Palestinian Fishermen

A baseline survey by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), dated September November 2004, noted that fishermen (65 percent) are highly dependent on fishing as their main source of income. 25 percent rely on external aid and charity as their main source of income. External aid and charity constitute the majority of their secondary and tertiary source of income (representing 86 percent and 77 percent respectively).

The WFP press release attached here (click on title) was published on August, 3 2004. It refers amongst other things to the WFP provision of food aid to fishermen; a safety net to help them cope with the crisis. “This is a category of people who have lost everything and are very food insecure".