Hamas working with ‘friendly countries’ to ensure entry of aid into Gaza: Official
Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, has affirmed the group’s commitment to provide relief to people in Gaza “despite the massive destruction caused by the war of extermination and despite the lack of all components of normal life in the Strip”.
In a statement, al-Rishq said Hamas is continuing its efforts by communicating with “various friendly countries and parties” to ensure the entry of aid and relief into the enclave and “following up on obligating the occupation to implement all provisions of the agreement to ensure recovery, reconstruction, and the return of a decent life for all our great Palestinian people”.
WFP says ‘62,000 metric tonnes’ of aid need to enter Gaza monthly
Antoine Renard, World Food Programme representative and country director for Palestine, says in the north of Gaza, they managed to have one of their teams do reconnaissance for ordnance at the Zikim crossing to check if it can be used to bring in goods.
“What is most important now for us to reach the north is crossings to be opened,” Renard told Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah.
He explained that in the January ceasefire, the WFP enabled “practically a third of all the different goods that managed to enter into Gaza”.
“The conditions should be the same [now]. We expect that the good practices that we had in January 2025 will be again applied in this ceasefire,” Renard said.
“In the last two months, we’ve been bringing more volume into Gaza, but it was insufficient. We were covering only 40-45 percent of the staple food that was in Gaza … We need now to have the full 62,000 metric tonnes getting every month into the Gaza Strip,” he added.
Palestinians make their way to Gaza City through the so-called Netzarim Corridor from Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip
That's not that much, 104 20t trucks daily. That's just the WFP ofcourse. And a lot more than food is needed.
