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A limited quantity of food has been delivered to desperate gas for the first time since early Wednesday on Wednesday, but senior United Nations officials warned that the offer was “far from being sufficient” to prevent the aggravation of the humanitarian crisis.
UN officials say they hope more to be delivered on Thursday.
Aid agencies warn that a large part of Gaza will be on the brink of famine if supplies are not allowed to enter the enclave in volume.
Until this week, Israel had banned any humanitarian aid entering Gaza since March 2, saying that Hamas had stolen and took advantage of it.
Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, published on X Thursday: “In close contact with the team in #Gaza. Today will be crucial. Truck truck trucks have finally moved again. ”
Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid began to deliver the first food and supplies to Gaza in more than 11 weeks on Wednesday. More than 90 trucks carrying flour, baby supplements and other foods have started to disperse the aid in southern Gaza, according to the head of the Gaza transport association, Nahid Shuheiber.
Kamel Revour, the owner of the Aghour bakeries in Gaza, said that part of the flour would be distributed to the southern bakeries to start working “immediately”.
Shuhaiber said he hoped for a similar number of trucks on Thursday, but that two trucks were stolen from residents desperately feared on Wednesday.
The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA) said on Wednesday evening that five kitchens had resumed operations in Khan Younis and Gaza City, but five others had been forced to close for a lack of supplies.
According to COGAT, the Israeli agency dealing with the passage of Gaza aid, five trucks entered Gaza on Monday 93 trucks entered Tuesday and 100 others entered Wednesday.
But the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund, Catherine Russell, said on Wednesday to X: “The few trucks that have entered life supplies are far from sufficient and have not yet reached those who need it.
There have also been delays caused by disagreements between the Israeli army and road aid agencies to be used in Gaza.
“The Israeli authorities had not allowed our teams to go through an area where it was very congestioned, that we thought that we had quite a bit and where we felt well which were very likely to take place given the prolonged deprivation in Gaza,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary General said on Wednesday.
The OCHA also said on Wednesday that “critical articles such as hygiene products or fuel had not been authorized by the Israeli authorities”.
Israel has approved a plan promoted by the American ambassador to Jerusalem, Mike Huckabee, for the distribution of aid to organize by a private group known as Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. UN officials said the plan was inadequate.
While the aid begins to flow to Gaza, Israeli forces continue to expand their operations, pushing the civilian population into a smaller area. OCHA said that “a large number of people continue to be moved”, with 80% Gaza now subject to travel orders, in Israeli-militarized areas.
“The continuous displacement of the Gaza population exerts immense pressure on humanitarian teams,” said OCHA, leading to “an extreme lack of shelter space. Travel sites and residential buildings are very overcrowded.”
United Nations agencies are also concerned about strikes in hospitals. He said that on Wednesday the Al Awda Hospital in the north of Gaza – the only partially functional establishment in the region – was struck, while Kamal Adwan Hospital ceased the operations. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Thursday that the Indonesian hospital closed northern Gaza has deprived more than 400,000 people in health services.
In the south of Gaza, the European hospital remains out of service after several Israeli strikes last week.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that it had received a medical supplies truck for its Rafah field hospital, but added that it would take time to recover from the deficit created in the past ten weeks.
“The next few days are essential,” said the ICRC.
Another problem is water, with the largest desalination plant in the north of Gaza located in an area that civilians were invited to leave. Many people have moved to Al-Mawasi, a coastal area in the south, but it is not connected to the water network and is based heavily on water trucking.
Gaza City spokesperson Asem Alnabih told CNN that there was “a major water crisis due to the reduction in fuel supplies”, the situation aggravated by moving and increasing temperatures.
