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SvennoJ on 28 August 2024
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MSF says Israel is blocking the entry of hygiene kits into Gaza

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym, MSF, said it has been trying to import 4,000 hygiene kits into the Gaza Strip for the past three months. The kits contain basic everyday items such as soap, toothbrushes, shampoo and laundry powder, it said in a statement.

But “for three months, importation of these kits has been blocked by the Israeli authorities”.

The international medical aid group says the lack of sanitation services in Khan Younis is resulting in the spread of infectious skin diseases among children.

“The living conditions are extremely difficult. Every day, we see between 300 to 400 people at the medical clinic, of which 200 cases are related to skin conditions,” said Dr Youssef Salaf al-Farra, a paediatrician working at an MSF-supported clinic.

“Children are the most impacted, especially by skin conditions that are highly contagious,” he said.


Aid flow into Gaza slowest in nine months: UNRWA official

The humanitarian aid supply in Gaza is likely at its lowest point since November, says UNRWA’s Director of Planning Sam Rose, estimating that some 100 trucks are getting into the enclave per day.

“That compares to about 300 per day before the Rafah operation started in May, and way below the 500 trucks that we have insisted are the requirements to meet the minimum humanitarian needs of the population,” Rose told Al Jazeera.


All humanitarian aid to Gaza must stop: Lieberman

Member of the Israeli Knesset Avigdor Lieberman has called for all humanitarian aid to Gaza to stop.

“It is not our job to take care of the civilian humanitarian effort in Gaza, against those who brutally murdered and kidnapped our sons and daughters,” he wrote on X.

“The only arrangement that should be in place with Gaza is to stop all transfers of humanitarian aid, equipment, fuel, electricity and water and leave operational freedom of action to the [Israeli forces] in order to prevent renewed military intensification.”


Impossible to vaccinate children ‘under a sky full of bombs’: UNRWA

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has again pleaded for a humanitarian pause in Gaza to carry out a mass vaccination campaign against polio, saying it cannot do its job “under a sky full of bombs and strikes”.

As we reported earlier, some 1.2 million vaccines have arrived in Gaza, where one infant has contracted the disease. The UN has said it needs a weeklong pause to vaccinate all children.