Not enough food enters Gaza and distribution problems continue
New York (UNA/WAFA) - The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that “time is running out, and access obstacles to providing aid remain in the Gaza Strip.”
OCHA said, in a statement issued today, Thursday, that “more than 1.1 million people in Gaza face a severe level of food insecurity,” stressing that “there is no alternative to delivering aid by land, to save lives, especially in the northern Gaza Strip.” .
United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric explained, during a press conference, that not enough food is being brought into Gaza, in addition to continuing distribution problems due to “the security situation and lack of cooperation and coordination.”
He pointed out that the head of OCHA in the occupied Palestinian territory, Andrea Di Domenico, visited one of the four hospitals that partially provide the service in northern Gaza, and receives about 15 children suffering from malnutrition every day.
He stressed the need to send humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza without interruption in order to save the lives of children, noting that the entry of humanitarian aid into the region continues to be prevented, despite the World Food Program’s announcement that nearly 70 percent of northern Gaza faces “terrible hunger.”
He explained that the World Food Program was only able to send 11 aid convoys to northern Gaza this month, stressing that daily shipments are necessary to prevent famine.
Dujarric stressed that “the main problem is the lack of sufficient food entry, the lack of cooperation with the Israeli authorities, and the insufficient fuel and number of trucks.”
The Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip is entering its 174th day, amid a great scarcity of basic materials, and approximately 70% of the population of northern Gaza are on the brink of famine, after the occupation prevented thousands of tons of aid from crossing overland from Rafah and into northern Gaza.
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, “B’Tselem,” recently confirmed that 2.2 million people in the Gaza Strip are suffering from hunger, as a direct result of Israel’s declared policy that deprives them of food.
In an infinite toll, the number of martyrs since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on the seventh of last October has risen to 32490 martyrs and 74889 injured.
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