US EditionIsrael Says Hundreds of Truckloads of Aid Are Waiting to Enter Gaza. Why Can't the UN Bring Them In?
GAZA STRIP, JUL 24 – UN agencies report only 100 aid trucks enter Gaza daily while 6,000 trucks wait to deliver supplies amid rising starvation and malnutrition rates, officials said.
- On Thursday, the European Commission said less than 100 aid trucks enter Gaza daily, while Philippe Lazzarini reported 6,000 trucks waiting.
- Following the outbreak of fighting, and since July 25, Israel has kept Gaza's border crossings shut, stranding aid trucks.
- According to Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, UN health agency representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, more than 30,000 children under five have acute malnutrition in Gaza, and at least 21 of them have died so far this year.
- Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry reported 48 people died from starvation last month, and Farhan Haq warned `When child malnutrition surges, coping mechanisms fail, access to food & care disappears, famine silently begins to unfold`.
- Aid organisations and dozens of governments including Australia this week urged Israel to increase aid flow, with Reuters reporting `Allow humanitarian partners to bring unrestricted and uninterrupted humanitarian assistance to Gaza`.
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Israel says hundreds of truckloads of aid are waiting to enter Gaza. Why can't the UN bring them in?
The United Nations and experts say that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.
Since the beginning of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the autumn of 2023, humanitarian and international authorities have alerted to the imminence of a widespread famine in Gaza. For the past two months, the situation has changed and requires a review of the facts. Most of the 470,000 people currently suffering from malnutrition are located in the north of the enclave, of which Israel assumes the strategy of isolation. Analysis. "The b…
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