The European Union (EU) has coordinated efforts to raise 1 billion Dollars in aid for Gaza. The bloc’s top diplomat yesterday said that EU is working with 65 governments and organisations, including the White House and the United Nations.

The European Commission Vice President, Kaja Kallas, announced the fund after a meeting of the Palestine Donors Group in Brussels. The meeting was the second gathering of the Team Gaza Initiative, an effort by the EU to rally support for recovery projects like sanitation and farming in the war-ravaged coastal enclave of nearly 2 million people.