With UNRWA still blocked, aid groups ask who will deliver aid to north Gaza
Sean Carroll, the president and CEO of Anera, the American Near East Refugee Aid organisation, has told Al Jazeera that the aid group is still “extremely nervous” about resuming aid deliveries to the north of the Gaza Strip.
“We’re not satisfied with the findings of the investigation on the World Central Kitchen killings,” Carroll said, adding that the organisation wants to “see the evidence” of Israel’s claims the strikes were a mistake. “World Central Kitchen, Anera and at least two other international NGOs have paused our work until we get more assurances that humanitarian aid workers are welcome,” said Carroll.
Carroll welcomed the news that aid trucks had entered the Gaza Strip but said “the real issue is who’s going to deliver it”. “UNRWA is blocked,” said Carroll, noting that Israel still won’t allow the UN agency, which is the largest humanitarian provider in the Gaza Strip, to reach the north.
300 aid trucks enter Gaza as Palestinians battle starvation
Israel has announced the entry of more than 300 aid trucks into Gaza, the highest daily volume since its war on the besieged territory began six months ago. Under growing international pressure, Israel on Monday said 322 aid trucks were inspected and allowed to enter the heavily bombarded Palestinian territory.
But the delivery still falls far short of what the UN says is the minimum required to feed millions of people – most of them refugees – on the brink of starvation.
Number of aid trucks into Gaza ‘not nearly enough’
At this moment, there’s an expectation that more aid trucks should be allowed into the Gaza Strip to help people face the challenges of the spread of famine and the depletion of resources there.
The number we’re looking at right now is not nearly enough to respond to the greater needs and demands of a largely hungry, traumatised and forced-to-starve-to-death population across the Gaza Strip.
The fact that the Israeli military is allowing this to happen for the first time in six months is proof that food has been used as a weapon. In fact, it’s a weaponisation of food and food supplies and aid to collectively punish an entire population.
The decision to reopen 20 bakeries and water pipelines in the northern part and Gaza City is yet more proof that Israel used these essential basic needs to collectively punish the people of Gaza.
Hmm the Israeli claims are not matching the tracking site either
The aid is not arriving.
