The UN says 90 truck help charges now in Gaza after a delay in the crossing

More than 90 charges of humanitarian aid trucks were collected by United Nations teams inside the Gaza Strip, three days after Israel attenuated an 11 -week blockade.

The help, which included flour, baby food and medical equipment, was recovered at the Kerem Shalom crossing on Wednesday evening and led to distribution warehouses. The images showed a bakery producing bread with part of the flour.

The UN said delays was due to insecurity along the single access route that the Israeli army had approved.

Israeli authorities said they had granted an additional 100 truck charges via Kerem Shalom on Wednesday. However, the UN said that it was “not at all enough to meet the vast needs to Gaza”.

Humanitarian organizations have warned against acute hunger levels among the 2.1 million inhabitants, in the midst of significant shortages of staple food and the rowing.

The Minister of Health of the Palestinian Authority, Majed Abu Ramadan, who is based in the occupied West Bank, told Geneva journalists on Thursday that 29 children and elderly people died of causes “linked to famine” in the last two days, according to the Reuters news agency.

An assessment of the classification of the integrated food security phase supported by the UN (IPC) also said that half a million people are faced with famine in the coming months.

On Wednesday evening, a United Nations spokesperson said that his teams “collected around 90 trucks of Kerem Shalom Crossing and sent them to Gaza”.

A video shared with the BBC showed trucks with the help collected from Kerem Shalom leading to a convoy along a Southern Gaza road.

Other images have shown that bags of flour unloaded in a bakery and hundreds of pita breads came out of his ovens on conveyor belts.

Amjad Al-Shawa, director of the network of Palestinian non-governmental organizations in Gaza, said bakeries supported by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) would produce bread that would be given by agency staff.

“The idea is to try to reach the most needy families, those who are desperate, because it’s just the start,” he told Reuters.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that it had brought a charge of medical supplies for a country hospital in the southern city of Rafah, but this was necessary.

“A net of trucks is terribly inadequate. Only the fast, unhindered and sustained aid flow can start to meet the entire scope of needs on the ground,” he said.

Before the operation, Antoine Renard, PAM head, told the BBC that help problems arise because the Israeli army wanted trucks to move along a route in Gaza that help agencies considered dangerous. The route, he said, could leave them at risk of attack by desperately hungry civilians and armed criminal gangs.

“At market prices in Gaza at the moment, each truck full of flour is worth around $ 400,000 (£ 298,000),” said Renard.

He added that the solution would be “hundreds of trucks a day” traveling along a safe path to warehouses, noting that “the less the risk and anxiety anxiety are raised” among the population.

Mr. Renard said that the assistant agencies on the side of Gaza did not use the armed guards to accompany their cargoes because it was considered too dangerous, therefore a long ceasefire and an extension of the current five-day window for the transfer of food were urgently necessary.

Israel stopped all the deliveries of help and commercial supplies in Gaza on March 2 and resumed its military offensive two weeks later, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas.

He said the stages had to put pressure on the armed group to release the 58 hostages still held in Gaza, of which up to 23 are supposed to be alive.

Israel also insisted that he was not lacking in help and accused Hamas of having stolen supplies to give to his combatants or to sell to collect funds – an allegation that the group refused.

The UN also denied that the aid had been diverted and said that Israel had been forced under international humanitarian law to ensure that food and drugs have reached the Gaza population.

Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he was allowing a limited quantity of food in Gaza so that the Israeli army can continue its newly expanded offensive and take total control of the Palestinian territory.

“At the end of this maneuver, the whole Gaza Strip will be under the control of Israeli security and Hamas will be completely defeated,” he said at a press conference.

“So that we can keep our freedom of operational action and allow our best friends to continue supporting us, we must prevent a humanitarian crisis.”

Netanyahu also said that the American controversial American plan for assistance to Gaza – which would bypass existing United Nations facilities and would use a private company to distribute food from the southern and the center of Gaza protected by security entrepreneurs and Israeli troops – would give Israel “another tool to win”.

The UN and other agencies have declared that they would not cooperate with the plan, claiming that it contradicts fundamental humanitarian principles and seems to “arm aid”.

PAM also warned that it would require 2.1 million people to travel long distances for food.

“This plan is not a solution, it is a political decision,” said Renard. “Food should go to people, not food people.”

Meanwhile, Israeli bombings and ground operations continue through Gaza, the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas reporting on Thursday that 107 people were killed in the previous 24 hours.

At least 52 people have been killed since dawn on Thursday, according to the Civil Defense Agency managed by Hamas. The Palestinian media reported that they understood 16 people, most of the members of an extended family, who died when a home was hit in Jabalia, northern Gaza.

The Israeli army issued evacuation orders for Jabalia and 13 other northern districts on Thursday, warning the residents he “operated with intense force in your regions, while terrorist organizations are continuing their activities and operations”.

According to the UN, around 81% of the territory is now subject to Israeli evacuation orders, which is located in militarized “No-Go” areas.

It is estimated that nearly 600,000 people have been displaced since March, including 161,000 people who were forced to flee last week.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the cross -border attack in Hamas on October 7, 2023, during which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

At least 53,762 people, including 16,500 children, have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health in the territory.