The spokesman for the United Nations General Secretariat, Stéphane DujarricHe has reported that his teams have not been able to distribute humanitarian aid during the day in the Gaza Strip despite the entrance of trucks from the Kerem Shalom crossing.
“One of our teams waited for several hours to access the crossing of Kerem Shalom and collect the supplies. Unfortunately, they have not been able to take them to our warehouse. To make it clear: although more supplies have arrived in Gaza, we have not been able to ensure their arrival at our stores and delivery points“He said at a press conference.
Dujarric explained that supplies have to be downloaded on the Palestinian side of Kerem Shalom’s crossing and subsequently recharged from inside Gaza with other trucks. “Then we have to get permission from the Israeli security forces so that our staff can pick them up,” he said.
“Yesterday the entrance to about four trucks was allowed, not five. Today to a few dozen. The point is that logistics, security complications and, in general, the environment in general, make this extremely difficult,” he added.
In addition, he has also detailed that once the trucks are already on the Gazatí side, their staff You have to have the corresponding permits to travel along the roads to your stores. “We must ensure that the security situation is acceptable,” he said.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said on Tuesday in a statement that the statements of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, about the entry of Gaza’s help “are false.” “No truck has not entered,” he said, despite the figures offered by the UN.
The Press Office of the Gazati authorities has previously asked the population that protects trucks with humanitarian aid, which facilitates their entry and that attacks are avoided. “We call on national, moral and collective responsibility,” he said.
Israel says that 93 trucks have entered
For its part, the government activities coordinator in the territories (COGAT) has indicated that 93 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid have entered through Kerem Shalom. Specificallythey carried flour for bakeries, baby food, medical equipment and medicines. “All aid has been transferred after an exhaustive security inspection,” the Israeli authority said in social networks.
The UN Humanitarian Affairs Chief, Tom FletcherHe confirmed on Monday that Israel had given green light to the entrance of nine trucks with “limited help” one day after the Israeli prime minister said he would lift the blockade, although he stressed that this implies “a drop in the ocean” that arrives in the middle of a “rebound” of the offensive on the enclave.
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