UNRWA: 3,000 aid trucks are lined up at Gaza border
The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees has again decried Israel’s refusal to allow any food, medicine or fuel into Gaza, saying that humanitarian organisations stand ready to step in and help.
Israel’s total blockade of Gaza has passed its 60th day, the longest such border closure the Strip has ever faced, deepening the hunger crisis in the coastal enclave.
“One million children depend on aid, and without it, their lives are in danger,” UNRWA wrote.
Nearly 3,000 UNRWA trucks with lifesaving supplies are waiting outside #Gaza. But the siege blocking their entry continues.
1️⃣ million children depend on aid, and without it, their lives are in danger.
The crossings must reopen, and the siege must be lifted.… pic.twitter.com/L5nADD2ydH
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) April 30, 2025
People killed in Khan Younis drone attack were farmers trying to grow food
Once again, explosions and air raids rock civilian blocks in the northern and southern parts of the Strip. We’re looking at three people killed in one residential area in Beit Lahiya. Others critically injured have been transferred to the nearby Indonesian Hospital.
In the eastern part of Khan Younis, three farmers were killed in an Israeli attack this morning. According to witnesses, they were on their way to their farm when at least one drone attack killed them. They were trying to farm and grow food to make up for the acute shortages across Gaza.
Meanwhile, hospitals are struggling to treat the wounded and save lives. One little girl succumbed to wounds she suffered in recent days and died.
Aid lootings in Gaza ‘a grave signal of how serious things are’
At least five looting incidents took place yesterday across Gaza, with desperate people searching for food and aid at kitchens, stores and aid warehouses, reports Reuters, quoting residents and aid workers.
In one case, thousands of people crowded into an UNRWA site in Gaza City, taking medicine, said Louise Wateridge, a senior official for the agency. “While devastating, [the looting] is not surprising in the face of total systemic collapse,” she said.
Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) in Gaza, also described the looting as “a grave signal of how serious things have become in the Gaza Strip”, pointing to “the spread of hunger, the loss of hope, and desperation among residents as well as the absence of the authority of the law”.
Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Gaza Government Media Office, said the looting incidents were “isolated individual practices that do not reflect the values and ethics of our Palestinian people”.
He said that despite being targeted, Gaza authorities were “following up on these incidents and addressing them in a way that ensures the preservation of order and human dignity”.
Blocking aid to Gaza is a ‘cruel collective punishment,’ says UN relief chief
The United Nations has again called on Israel to lift its blockade of humanitarian aid delivery into the Gaza Strip.
“International law is unequivocal: as the occupying power, Israel must allow humanitarian support in. Aid, and the civilian lives it saves, should never be a bargaining chip,” Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said in a statement.
He said blocking aid starves civilians and leaves them without basic medical support, adding that it strips them of dignity and hope and “inflicts a cruel collective punishment. Blocking aid kills.
“The humanitarian movement is independent, impartial and neutral. We believe that all civilians are equally worthy of protection,” said Fletcher, underlining that they remain ready to save as many lives as they can, despite the risks.
Palestinians wait in long lines with empty pots in hands to get food aid distributed by charity organisations at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza City
