Some 600 trucks needed daily in Gaza, but Israel allowed an average of 86 per day over last 2 weeks
The Government Media Office in Gaza said only 1,210 aid trucks entered Gaza over the past 14 days. Officials said this represents just 14 percent of the territory’s actual needs – a total of 8,400 trucks.
Aid groups have been seeking the entry of at least 600 trucks daily to address the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza caused by Israel’s curbs on aid delivery.
The majority of trucks, they added, were “subjected to looting and robbery amidst the artificial security chaos pursued by the Israeli occupation, as part of a systematic policy of ‘engineering starvation and chaos’, with the aim of breaking the will of the Palestinian people and undermining their steadfastness”.
The daily breakdown provided was:
- July 27, 2025: 73 trucks
- July 28, 2025: 87 trucks
- July 29, 2025: 109 trucks
- July 30, 2025: 112 trucks
- July 31, 2025: 104 trucks
- August 1, 2025: 73 trucks
- August 2, 2025: 36 trucks
- August 3, 2025: 80 trucks
- August 4, 2025: 95 trucks
- August 5, 2025: 84 trucks
- August 6, 2025: 92 trucks
- August 7, 2025: 87 trucks
- August 8, 2025: 83 trucks
- August 9, 2025: 95 trucks
Over the two-week period, the average number of trucks entering Gaza each day was 86.
'Only 10 percent of baby formulas, supplements needed in Gaza allowed by Israel’
Despite tens of thousands of children suffering from acute malnutrition in Gaza, only 10 percent of the required baby formulas and supplements have been allowed into the enclave, Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network, tells Al Jazeera.
“There is no milk,” he said, adding that 55,000 infants cannot be breast-fed by their mothers.
“I cannot separate the issue of many malnutrition from the thirst, from the diseases”, he said.
Shawa said children’s immune systems are also suffering because of the malnutrition, and they are suffering from numerous “diseases” exacerbated by pollution and a lack of water and hygiene in the enclave.
Children are also forced to sleep in humid conditions in tents, many of which are in dire need of replacement. But no new tents have arrived in Gaza since March, he explained.
There is also the psychological trauma that the children are suffering from, which, with everything accounted for, creates a “package of suffering” that Gaza’s children are experiencing, Shawa said.
Palestinian girl Huda Abu al-Naja lies on a bed as she receives treatment at the malnutrition ward at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
Mothers ‘seeing their children dying’
We’ve heard from mothers who are unable to breastfeed and, with no baby formula, are forced to give their babies water. Palestinian mothers are also only able to feed their children every few days. They are forced to put them to sleep hungry. They’re seeing their children dying.
