The aid agencies continued to criticize Israel after announcing that she had sent a small convoy of trucks carrying vital supplies in Gaza.
COGAT, the Israeli military organization responsible for civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory, confirmed on Friday that 107 trucks had entered the enclave the day before, loaded with flour, medication and equipment.
However, aid agencies and others condemned Israel’s policy to allow minimum volumes of aid to Gaza, which the Israeli army has been blocking for almost three months.
They insist that supplies are far from sufficient for millions trapped in the territory, and add that even the small quantities that make it are not to people due to Israeli attacks and looting.
Expeditions follow the announcement of Israel on Sunday that it would allow “minimal” humanitarian aid on the territory for the first time since the implementation of a total blockade in early March.
In the midst of increasing famine warnings and humanitarian disasters, Israel said that the decision to authorize Gaza aid was motivated by diplomatic concerns.
World indignation has increased as the 11 -week seat increased, leaving 2.1 million people in Gaza on the edge of famine, with exhausted medications and fuel supplies.
The United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and the Emergency Rescue Coordinator Tom Fletcher described aid deliveries “a drop in the ocean” and warned that much better access is necessary to resolve the climbing of the crisis.
The UN estimates that at least 500 aid trucks are necessary daily. Since Monday’s announcement, only 300 trucks have arrived, including Thursday’s convoy, according to Cogat.
Attacks and looting
Aid agencies also declare that even the help that is authorized in Gaza does not reach people.
“Significant challenges in the loading and sending of goods remain due to insecurity, the risk of looting, delays in coordination approvals and inappropriate routes provided by Israeli forces which are not viable for the cargo movement,” said the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA).
On Friday, Hamas officials said on Friday that Israeli air strikes killed at least six Palestinians keeping aid trucks against looters.
A network umbrella of Palestinian aid groups said that only 119 aid trucks entered Gaza since Israel had attenuated its blockade on Monday, and that the distribution was hampered by looting, including by groups armed with men.
“They stole food for children and families with serious hunger,” the network said in a statement.
The United Nations World Food Program said on Friday that 15 of its trucks had been looted in southern Gaza while on the way to bakeries supported by PAM.
“ Most people live leftover food ‘
Inside Gaza, the situation continues to deteriorate.
Dr. Ahmed al-Farrah from Nasser Hospital told Tel Aviv Tribune that the health system was exceeded.
“Most people now experience pieces of food from what they had in stock,” he said. “I predict that there will be many victims due to food insecurity.”
Managers of the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Thursday that at least 29 children and elderly people died in recent days of causes related to famine, with thousands of other at risk.
The spokesman for the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that aid was distributed via the United Nations mechanisms, but stressed that the quantity reaching Gaza “is not enough”.
The leaders of Great Britain, France and Canada warned Israel on Monday that their country would take measures, including possible sanctions, if Israel did not raise aid restrictions.
“The refusal of the Israeli government of essential humanitarian aid for civilian population is unacceptable and risks violating international humanitarian law,” said a joint statement published by the British government.
“We will not hesitate to take other measures, including targeted sanctions,” he added.
In response, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the trio of being “on the wrong side of history” and of “supporting” mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers “.
