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SvennoJ on 14 August 2025
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Gaza’s civil defence says 1,000 aid trucks needed daily

Basal Mahmoud, Gaza’s civil defence spokesperson, has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the aid currently entering the enclave is “not sufficient at all”.

He said at least 1,000 trucks of various supplies are needed each day, adding that only about 100 trucks enter daily, most of them going to traders rather than meeting market needs.

Dr Munir al-Bursh, director of Gaza’s Health Ministry, said Israel is starving to death “all sorts of people”, including children and women.

He warned that 40,000 children under one were suffering from malnutrition, 250,000 children under five face life-threatening food shortages, and 1.2 million children under 18 are living in severe food insecurity.

“We are facing overwhelming, frightening figures,” al-Bursh told Al Jazeera Arabic.

UNRWA chief says agency’s warehouses in Egypt, Jordan can fill 6,000 aid trucks

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), says the organisation has been banned from delivering aid to Gaza for more than five months.

He said UNRWA warehouses in Egypt and Jordan are “full with food, medicine and hygiene supplies”, enough to fill 6,000 trucks. Lazzarini said the agency joins other NGOs in calling for a ceasefire and for aid to be allowed in, managed by the UN system, including UNRWA.


Gaza health workers overwhelmed as conditions worsen, NGO warns

Raafat al-Majdalawi, executive director of the AWDA NGO, says every aspect of life in Gaza – especially its healthcare sector – is rapidly deteriorating from bad to worse.

Speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic, al-Majdalawi said medical personnel are being stretched thin, working with an overwhelming number of casualties, including wounded aid seekers, with minimal resources and no medicine.

On top of this, he said, they are working “without essential machines and fuel needed to generate power”. “Medical providers work long hours, and for days at a time, and still … have to search for clean water and food to feed their families,” al-Majdalawi said.


Israeli attacks destroy septic system at Nasser Hospital, flooding it with sewage

The management of the Khan Younis medical complex says that raw sewage is obstructing the work of staff.

Severe damage to the sewage lines, resulting from ongoing Israeli attacks, has caused the waste to flood directly into the hospital and its surrounding complex, the management said.

Iyad Barhoum, the hospital’s administrative director, said that the Israeli army is preventing technical crews from reaching these lines for repair, exacerbating the crisis and negatively affecting the health services provided to patients.


Gaza’s healthcare system ‘strangled’ by siege and war, MSF says

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says Gaza’s health system has been “strangled” by nearly two years of war and blockade, leaving it barely functional. Half of the enclave’s hospitals are out of service, while the remaining facilities face critical shortages of medicines, surgical tools and basic supplies.

The group says the ongoing, near-total siege in place since March has also left medical staff undernourished, with many working long hours despite the lack of resources. Patient numbers have surged to their highest since October 2023, with some emergency rooms forced to turn people away or close early due to overcrowding.

It warns that people with otherwise treatable injuries are dying, and called for an immediate ceasefire and full, unhindered access for humanitarian aid to prevent further avoidable deaths.