The UN says that no help has yet been distributed in Gaza despite the aid trucks that start to cross the border after an 11 -week blockade.
Israeli officials said 93 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday, helping, including flour, baby food, medical equipment and pharmaceutical drugs.
But the UN said, despite the trucks reaching the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, no help has been distributed so far.
His spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that a team “was waiting for several hours” for Israel to allow them to access the region, but “unfortunately, they could not bring these supplies to our warehouse”.
Israel agreed on Sunday to allow a “quantity of basic food” to enter Gaza, where global experts warned against imminent famine.
Meanwhile, the civil defense service managed by Hamas said on Wednesday that 15 people, including a child, had been killed in air strikes since midnight, local time.
International pressure on Israel has continued to grow.
The United Kingdom said that it would suspend commercial talks on what it described as a “morally unjustifiable” military climbing Israel in Gaza, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer describing the situation as “intolerable”.
Meanwhile, the head of the EU foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, said that the block would examine his trade agreement with Israel in the light of his actions in Gaza.
Dujarric said that the help operation had been made “complex” because Israel demanded that the UN “unload supplies on the Palestinian side of Kerem Shalom Crossing, and recharge them separately once they have obtained access from our teams from the interior of the Gaza Strip”.
He added that the arrival of supplies was a positive development but described it as “a drop in the ocean of what is necessary”.
The UN bodies believe that 600 trucks per day are necessary to start attacking the chronic humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Earlier, UN humanitarian leader Tom Fletcher told BBC that thousands of babies could die in Gaza if Israel did not immediately leave help.
Addressing the BBC’s Today program, Mr. Fletcher said: “There are 14,000 babies who will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.”
When he was put on the way he had reached this figure, he said that there were “solid teams on the ground” operating in medical centers and schools – but had not provided more details.
The BBC later asked for clarifications on the figure of the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (UNOCHA), which said: “We point the imperative to obtain supplies to save around 14,000 babies suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Gaza, because the IPC partnership warned it.
He highlighted a report of the integrated classification of the food security phase (IPC) which indicated that 14,100 serious cases of acute malnutrition should occur in children aged six to 59 months between April 2025 and March 2026.
The IPC report indicates that this could take place for about a year – not 48 hours.
When he supported the figures at a press conference, the Unsel spokesman, Jens Laerke, said: “For the moment, let me say that we know that babies are in an urgent need to rescue these supplements which must enter because their mothers are unable to eat themselves.”
“And if they don’t get them, they will be deadly,” he said.
Last week, the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas reported that 57 children died of the effects of malnutrition in the past 11 weeks.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio welcomed Israel’s decision on Tuesday to authorize aid to Gaza, saying to the Senate Committee for Foreign Relations: “We are delighted to see that the aid starts to flow again.”
Responding to a democrat who said that the number of authorized aid trucks was too little, Rubio said: “I understand that your point of view is not in sufficient quantity, but we were delighted to see that the decision was made.”
On Monday, the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada published a statement calling for the Israeli government to “arrest its military operations” and “immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza”.
As part of its announcement today, the United Kingdom has also issued sanctions on several Israeli settlers and groups related to the colonists.
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 53,475 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 3,340 since the Israeli offensive resumed, according to the Ministry of Health of the Territory.
