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SvennoJ on 21 May 2025
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‘I hope to live and to play again’

Jana, a 10-year-old Palestinian girl, has described her hopes after being injured in an Israeli attack on her family’s tent in Gaza.

“I hope to leave, for my arm to heal, and to play again,” she said in a video shared on X by the UN agency for children’s relief (UNICEF).

Another girl, 11-year-old Misk, after said she hopes to travel abroad for treatment after she suffered from burns.



Finally

Trucks loaded with aid enter central Gaza

Videos posted on Palestinian platforms and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency show aid trucks entering the Deir el-Balah area of central Gaza.

As we’ve been reporting, a spokesman for UN chief Guterres said earlier that no aid had reached Gaza because the Israeli authorities had only authorised one route into the enclave, and the UN had deemed it to be too “insecure”.

Stephane Dujarric also stressed earlier today that the “limited supplies” that Israel is allowing into Gaza “are nowhere near enough to meet the needs” of Palestinians.


‘We’re running out of time’: UNICEF chief sounds alarm over effects of aid blockade

The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns that life-saving supplies are quickly dwindling inside Gaza as Israeli forces largely maintain an aid blockade, preventing only a trickle of food and other essentials into the enclave.

“Children in Gaza continue to be killed, injured and deprived of aid,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a post on X.

“The few trucks that have entered with life-saving supplies are nowhere near sufficient and have yet to reach those in desperate need. We’re running out of supplies inside Gaza, and we’re running out of time.”