UN reports major shortfall in promised aid deliveries to Gaza during truce
Humanitarian aid delivery into Gaza remains severely restricted despite some improvement in food distribution, the United Nations says.
The UN reported last Thursday that only 149 trucks were offloaded at Gaza’s crossings the previous day, hampered by congested routes and persistent delays by Israel’s army. The Gaza media office said an average of only 145 aid trucks per day have entered Gaza since the ceasefire began, well short of the 600 agreed on.
Cargo movement is restricted by what the UN described as the “highly congested and narrow Philadelphi Corridor”, which is unsuitable for large convoys. Humanitarian organisations face continued denial by Israel of alternative routes to the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom to Israelis) crossing.
Aid trucks queue to enter the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip
Thousands of critical patients in Gaza await evacuation
More than 16,500 patients requiring specialized treatment remain trapped in Gaza, despite the World Health Organization facilitating the evacuation of critically ill patients.
A UN situation update said as of September, Egypt received the most Palestinian evacuees (3,995) from Gaza, followed by the United Arab Emirates (1,450), Qatar (970), and Turkiye (437).
In Europe, Italy took in the largest number of patients and provided medical treatment to 201 people. The UN said last week that 3,800 Palestinian children still need to be evacuated for urgent healthcare abroad.
Any genuine political process ‘must integrate all Palestinian territories’: Palestine’s foreign minister
Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Shahin has met United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on the sidelines of a security summit in Bahrain’s capital, Manama.
In a post on X, Shahin said she told her British counterpart that treating the question of peace in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem – the areas that would constitute a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines – as separate issues is an “approach disconnected from reality”.
Shahin stressed that any genuine political track “must integrate all Palestinian territories”
