After blockade: greater aid deliveries reach Gaza

Humanitarian crisis

After blockade: greater aid deliveries reach Gaza

Many people in sealed coastal strips suffer hunger. Since March, Israel has had little humanitarian aid. This ensures massive criticism worldwide. Is there a U -turn now?

After a month -long de facto blockade by Israel, larger aid deliveries have reached the Gaza Strip for the first time. On Sunday, a column of around 100 trucks with goods for the needy population over the Israeli border crossing Kerem Schalom drove into the large -scale coastal area, as sources confirmed there.

The goods – food, medication, baby food – are urgently needed. The World Health Organization WHO recently warned of a fatal hunger crisis among the approximately two million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. Photos from the sealed area, in which Israel wages war against Islamist Hamas, showed toddlers in the hospitals that were only skin and bones.

According to the Ministry of Health, which is controlled by the Islamist Hamas, more than 100 people have already died of malnutrition, 80 percent of them. Israel denies that there is a hungry disaster in the Gaza Strip and instead speaks of a “campaign” of Hamas.

Israel recently repeatedly accused the UN organizations of not wanting to distribute the help in the Gaza Strip. These countered that Israel did not want to guarantee safe transport routes within the competitive area. In fact, since the end of March, when Israel ended a ceasefire at the time, there has been very little help with the people in the Gaza Strip.

The worldwide criticism of its procedure in the Palestinian area has obviously prompted the Israeli leadership to be a U -turn. Surprisingly, the military announced on Sunday night to adhere to a self -declared humanitarian break in parts of the Gaza Strip, except for revocation every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time.

The break in the areas where the army does not operate: Al-Mawasi in the southwest of the sealed coastal strip, in Deir al-Balah in the center and in the city of Gaza in the north. Furthermore, corridors would be set up from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. to 11 p.m. to enable the confois of the UN and other aid organizations to be passed through.

A desalination system for the preparation of drinking water in the Gaza Strip has now been connected to the Israeli power grid again, the army said. The measures initiated aimed to “refute the wrong claim that the Gaza Strip is intentionally starved”.

The UN Nothilfekoordinator Tom Fletcher welcomed the announcement of the Israeli military. “With our teams on site we will do everything we can to achieve as many hungry people as possible in this time window,” he wrote on the X.

On the night of Sunday, the Israeli Air Force took a relief from the air over the Gaza Strip for the first time. The military said that seven pallets with relief goods such as flour, sugar and food pans that had been provided by international organizations were initially dropped. This method had been continued during Sunday. Overall, 28 pallets were thrown out of the air – also in cooperation with Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.

Last year, Jordan, Germany and other countries had dropped aid goods for a few weeks. However, helpers consider the method to be ineffective and expensive because of the relatively small quantities, for example in comparison to truck transports. In addition, people could be injured by the pallets on the ground.