Amount of aid reaching Gaza ‘very insufficient’
Germany said the aid flow into Gaza – despite limited improvements – remains “very insufficient”.
Government spokesman Stefan Kornelius said in a statement that Germany “notes limited initial progress in the delivery of humanitarian aid to the population of the Gaza Strip, which, however, remains very insufficient to alleviate the emergency situation”.
“Israel remains obligated to ensure the full delivery of aid,” Kornelius added.
Despite being one of Israel’s top allies in Europe, Germany has grown increasingly vocal about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where it airdropped aid for the first time yesterday.
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Sidelining UN is ‘deliberate measure to collectively punish Palestinians’
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said “the manmade famine in Gaza has been largely shaped by the deliberate attempts to replace” UN aid systems through the GHF.
He reminded people in a post on X that Israel has now been actively preventing the UN and international aid agencies from delivering lifesaving aid to Palestinians, in what he described as “a deliberate measure to collectively pressure and punish Palestinians for living in Gaza”.
“No time to waste anymore, a political decision must be made to unconditionally open the crossings”, Lazzarini said, adding that UNRWA has the ability to reverse the famine if allowed.
Risky aid drops ‘a last resort’: Ex-UN humanitarian chief
Martin Griffiths, the former under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator at the UN, has described aid drops as “a last resort”.
“They have lots of risks,” he told Al Jazeera.
“We’ve seen it happen already in this week of airdrops in Gaza; people hurt, wounded, killed on the ground because of the drops,” Griffiths said, adding there is “no system on the ground to … prevent looting and [to] get it to the right people”, he said.
Aid agencies have criticised air drops as ineffective and symbolic.
A plane load can typically only carry a quarter of an average truck’s capacity of 40 tonnes per load.
