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Humanitarians call for steady flow of aid into Gaza
Chris McIntosh, a humanitarian response adviser for Oxfam in Gaza, says restoring a consistent flow of aid is essential to stabilise conditions in the devastated Gaza Strip after two years of Israeli attacks.
“There needs to be a sufficient flow of aid into the Strip of goods … to lower the cost of food,” he told Al Jazeera. “Anything that stops the looting of aid trucks … will be a monumental achievement from a humanitarian perspective.”
Thousands of people have also taken to the streets in cities across the world, calling for unrestricted aid access and urgent international action to support Gaza’s recovery.
WFP ‘ready to scale up’ Gaza operations
The World Food Programme (WFP) says it is preparing to significantly expand its operations in Gaza as the ceasefire holds.
An official with the United Nations food agency told Al Jazeera that the WFP “never stopped” trying to deliver aid during the war, despite severe restrictions and unsafe conditions.
“We’ve been doing as much as we can, not just at the advocacy level, but actually getting aid in, to the limits we were allowed to,” said Samer Abdeljaber, the WFP’s regional director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe. “Conditions were not easy.”
WFP said it is now in “ready mode” to move up to 8,200 trucks carrying supplies aimed at restoring bakeries and re-establishing food distribution points across the Gaza Strip.
Abdeljaber said the agency also plans to resume its nutrition programmes supporting pregnant women and children under five, which he described as “critical functions” for Gaza’s food security.
Before the start of the war, the WFP operated more than 400 distribution points across Gaza. Abdeljaber said the agency now hopes to gradually rebuild that network as the UN seeks to restore its wider humanitarian role in the territory.
Footage shows Palestinians surrounding UN food aid trucks
Scenes documented on social media by a Palestinian activist show aid trucks belonging to the World Food Programme enter Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad confirmed the footage of several trucks entering the Strip carrying food aid, with civilians gathering around them in large numbers.
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