The UN humanitarian aid agency OCHA said 33 trucks carrying water, food and medical supplies entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Sunday.
“This is the largest humanitarian aid shipment since the resumption of limited supplies on October 21,” according to an update on the situation in the Gaza Strip sent early Monday.
According to OCHA, since the resumption of humanitarian aid to the densely populated Palestinian territory, home to 2.4 million people. people and which is almost completely besieged and subject to constant Israeli airstrikes, 117 trucks entered the enclave through this crossing.
Before the beginning of the siege, about 500 trucks carrying humanitarian aid and other supplies entered the Gaza Strip every day.
On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas crossed the Gaza border and launched the deadliest attack in Israeli history, killing 1,400, according to Jewish state officials. people, mostly civilians, and another 230 were kidnapped.
Israel responded by relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 8,000 people. people, half of them children, according to the Ministry of Health of the territory controlled by Hamas.
In the Palestinian enclave, thousands of buildings were razed to the ground and more than half of the residents were forced to leave their homes.
On Sunday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern over Israel’s increased military operations in the Gaza Strip, warning that “the world is witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe.”
A US government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Sunday that Israel is committed to allowing 100 trucks of aid into the Palestinian enclave every day, the number the UN says is needed to meet the most basic needs.
OCHA welcomed the latest delivery of humanitarian aid, but stressed that significantly more aid is needed on a regular basis to prevent the situation from worsening in the Gaza Strip.
“There is a particularly urgent need to import fuel for medical equipment, water and sanitation facilities,” OCHA said.
Of the 117 trucks admitted so far, 70 brought medical supplies and 60 brought food products.
Only 13 of them were carrying water and sanitation, the OCHA statement said.
Israel blocked any fuel supply, saying Hamas would use it to make weapons and explosives.
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