The government is giving 30 million kroner in immediate humanitarian aid in connection with the attacks on the Gaza strip.
"The situation is precarious," says the foreign secretary, Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap), who broke off his Christmas holiday to meet the press at Lillehammer on Tuesday.
Many innocent civilians are suffering as the result of violence in the Gaza strip. Støre points out that it is essential that huminitarian aid reaches those who are suffering.
"It is a requirement that Israel provides the necessary access for the delivery of humanitarian aid. There is a precarious need for medicine and surgical equipment at the hospitals on the Gaza strip. We join with the general international appeal to Israel to assist the delivery of humanitarian aid all the way to its destination," says Støre.
The money from the government will initially be channelled through the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN's crisis aid organization for the Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), the International Red Cross (ICRC) and NORWAC.
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