A total of 20 trucks are entering Gaza from Egypt’s Rafah border with a limited supply of medicines, medical supplies and a small amount of food (canned goods) on Saturday.
The border was open after days of lengthy negotiation with Israel to make safe passage for the Trucks to reach Gaza’s civilians.
The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator stated that around 100 trucks of humanitarian supplies per day are needed to meet the needs of the more than two million residents of Gaza.
Hamas’s media office says the expected truckloads of aid “will not change the catastrophic medical conditions in Gaza”.
But humanitarian workers have been warning that for the besieged Gaza Strip, which has been relentlessly bombed by Israel for two weeks, these 20 aid trucks cannot cover the immense needs of the enclave’s 2.3 million people.
Before the escalation, 500 trucks of goods used to enter every day to Gaza. PRCS is saying whatever aid is entered now is barely a fraction of the needs.
Palestinian organizations have already warned about Israel’s breach of the prohibition to use starvation as a weapon of warfare against Gaza’s civilian population, as well as how the ‘evacuation order’ issued by the Israeli military on 13 October may amount to the war crime of forcible transfer.
From 13 October, Israel has continued to bombard the entire Gaza Strip, including the southern districts of Rafah, Khan Younis and Deir al Balah, where most Palestinians sought shelter.
