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The blockade of Israel of Gaza may have been partially lifted – and a new American back plan To provide help has started. But there are several indications that the fate of the Gazans aggravates quickly.
The restrictions imposed by the Israeli army on aid roads, the current air strikes, the lack of security and the continuous displacement of tens of thousands of people aggravate an already alarming situation, according to the UN and other aid agencies. The supplies that enter risk of being piloted.
“The inhabitants of Gaza are hungry.
A woman, Umm Zuhair, who was trying to get food for her family on Sunday in one of the newly established aid distribution sites, told CNN: “We are so hungry that we are ready to risk being shot just for a kilo of flour.”
The number of children in Gaza suffering from acute malnutrition increases, reported the UN on Saturday, while a lack of fuel threatens to close the hospitals that still work.
The Israeli agency manages the Inspectorate of Aid to Gaza, the coordinator of government activities in the territories (COGAT), said on Saturday that 350 trucks containing humanitarian aid had entered the Gaza Strip through Kerem Shalom Crossing during last week – less than 20% of the volume of goods put in Gaza before the conflict.
And even the help that happens frequently does not go to the most desperate. The United Nations agencies indicate continuous difficulties in obtaining distribution routes within Gaza being agree with the Israeli army. Ocha said that on 16 trucks ready to be distributed last Thursday, five had been rejected, including fuel and water, and six failed to reach their destination.
In addition, the looting of Gaza aid convoys has increased sharply in recent weeks.
“The operations have been faced with unprecedented levels of insecurity and with a very high risk of looting, the partners indicating that most looting incidents are led by desperate civilians,” according to OCHA.
Nahed Shehaibar, head of the Private Transport Association in Gaza, said on Saturday that the transport of aid had been suspended “for the third consecutive day due to repeated attacks against trucks, including shots that have damaged and put several out -of -service trucks.”
Last week, the association reported that a driver had been killed and another injured as he was trying to provide help, but Shehaibar said on Sunday that 11 trucks of commercial products had managed to go to Deir Al-Balah in the center of Gaza.
The distribution of aid through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the American and Israeli aid initiative that started operating at the end of last month, was hampered by security problems.
On Sunday, GHF said that it has operated three distribution sites – two in southern Gaza and one in the center of Gaza – to distribute more than 17,000 boxes of food. In addition, GHF declared in its daily update that it had given more than 10,000 meals to community leaders north of Rafah in what the organization called a pilot test for “direct distribution to community”.
But many people who went to the Netzarim site in the Gaza center have left empty hand.
Mohammad Salim told CNN: “I went at 6 am and I found nothing. What’s going on is shameful. I hold an empty cardboard box – there is nothing inside, not even lenses.”
He said that some people had taken more than they needed and complained that there was no ID -based distribution system, operated by the UN. CNN previously reported that GHF has No system in place To filter the recipients of help.
Nader Musleh, who had left Al-Mawasi several kilometers, accepted.
“Some people have taken five or 10 boxes, and there is no organization at all,” he said.
Mohammad Abu Akouz was one of the many civilians who alleged that some people had been injured after being in the fire of Israeli tanks while they were heading for the site.
An Israeli military official told CNN that Israeli forces had pulled what they called “warning photos” from an armored vehicle about one kilometer from the distribution site. The manager said the area is an active war area.
GHF said he could not open his sites on Saturday, accusing Hamas of threatening his operations, including against Palestinian drivers and workers. He said the threats had made it impossible to proceed without putting innocent lives in danger.
A familiar driver with the operation, which asked not to be appointed for security reasons, told CNN on Sunday that Hamas had “threatened bus drivers responsible for the transport of workers to the three distribution points for American aid, warning them not to continue transfers”.
The drivers had to move 180 employees to the three distribution sites, he added.
GHF said on Friday that it had distributed more than 140,000 boxes of food, each box intended to feed a family for half a half. Boxes contain pasta, lenses and cooking oil, among other products. The GHF says that its goal is to distribute boxes containing enough food for 4.5 million meals a day.
After last week shots, the GHF called on people not to arrive at distribution points “before official opening time or meet near the doors before the scheduled date. It is for your safety and the safety of others. ”
The Israeli Defense Forces (FDI) said on Saturday in a position on X which bringing together external distribution centers outside the announced hours was “strictly prohibited” and warned that the areas around aid centers were closed military areas (11 a.m.) and 6 a.m. (11 p.m.).
The UN says that the use of the Israeli GHF and supported by the United States has a distribution of militarized aid and is insufficient for the enormous task of feeding families in Gaza. The GHF has no presence in the north of Gaza.
In his latest evaluation, OCHA said that 90% of Gaza families do not have the money needed to buy the little food available on the markets. “Meat, dairy, vegetables and fruits are almost absent from people’s diet,” he said.
Half of the community kitchens in Gaza were forced to stop cooking due to the lack of supplies or travel controls, according to OCHA.
The United Nations Agence on Rescue and Work (UNRWA) – The main agency for providing Aid to Gaza – said on Saturday that a nutritional study had revealed that the percentage of children under the age of 5 suffering from acute malnutrition had increased from 4.7% in the first half of May to 5.8% in the second half.
UNRWA said the number of children forced to manage by themselves had pushed an increasing number in “dangerous survival strategies. Children are reported in the streets, participating in looting or collection in a large crowd in search of food supplies at distribution points without security. ”
It is not only food that runs chronically short.
Dr. Mohamed Abu Salmiya, director of the Al-Shifa hospital in Northern Gaza, told CNN on Sunday that the few hospitals in Gaza still operate “will stop completely within two days if the fuel does not enter”.
He added that “a large number of injured cannot be treated due to the lack of blood supplies and medical equipment”, and medical staff faced difficult choices on patients to save.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Sunday that the Al-Shifa hospital and Baptiste Ahli hospital, both in northern Gaza, risked closing the service within 24 hours. He said it would mean the collapse of what remains of the health system in Gaza City.
In the South, the Ministry of Health said that the Nasser medical complex was operating on a limited fuel diet which will not last more than two days.
