Israel’s ads about and the entry of aid and basic goods in Gaza have been in Postureo. They are limited measures, of ridiculous impact, makeup before a possible war crime that is not solving the problem of. After the headlines, the Gazatis continue to die of malnutrition, because the phases of degradation are fast and deep, because what is entering is a drop in an ocean.
Only 73 trucks with food and sanitary material entered Gaza throughout Sunday, the first day of the aforementioned pauses to allow greater access of goods. They are data from the Gaza government. Most vehicles were assaulted, because despair is such that the wait is unable. “The reality is frightening: only 73 trucks have entered in the north and southern Gaza, most of which have been looted under the watchful eye of the Israeli occupation and its drones, in a clear attempt to prevent the help from reaching the distribution centers,” denounced the Gazati Executive, Efe reports.
The trucks do not carry security, they go through unsafe routes and the needy and hungry people assault them. It was known that it was going to happen. These incidents did not happen when safe roads were used, for example, of United Nations organizations and agencies, now vetoed in the area by the government of.
In addition, the Government has denounced that the three aid operations from the air authorized to countries such as United Arab Emirates or Jordan, “which have only meant the equivalent of two trucks”, fell into areas declared as combat by the Israeli army and inaccessible for security reasons for civilians. “What makes help totally useless from the humanitarian point of view,” he lamented.
The United Arab Emirates Air Force launches humanitarian aid from the air on the north of the Gaza Strip, this Sunday.
On Sunday, Efe was able to attest to the entrance of about 35 trucks of the World Food Program (WFP) through the border crossing of Zikim (north), all of them assaulted. Local sources assured that they also accessed about 25 trucks from the Egyptian red crescent, which had originally sent to Rafah (on the border between the Strip and Egypt) a convoy with about 100 vehicles.
These same sources said that among the 73 trucks that entered Gaza there is also a convoy belonging to (the Spanish chef NGO José Andrés) and other commercial trucks (private and not associated with cooperation). These last private sector trucks do usually have certainty.
“The only real solution lies in the unconditional and immediate opening of all crosses, which is lifted the illegal block and the urgent entry of food and baby formula before it is too late,” added the government statement.
“The only real solution lies in the unconditional and immediate opening of all crosses, which is lifted the illegal block and the urgent entry of food and baby formula before it is too late”
And before this war, Israel’s response to Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023 in which 1,200 Israelis were killed, plus 250 kidnapped, the entry of trucks in Gaza was 500 or 600 per day. Then, the area was land, sea and air for Israel, since 2007, when Hamas took power after winning the elections. The figure, which was already considered insufficient and that Tel Aviv, serves to compare, in a time when there was no current destruction.
Malnutrition advances
Today, 96% of the population in the Gaza Strip – about 2.15 million people – goes hungry in a severe or acute way, according to a report of the integrated food security classification (CIF) in collaboration with the UN, which points out, in addition, that almost half a million gazaties “spends whole days without eating.” They are data from yesterday. There are about 90,000 women and children already malnourished. For September, he warns, about half a million people will face “catastrophic hunger.”
The total number of victims per shortage of food and basic products from the beginning of the Israeli offensive against the strip rises to 127, of which 85 were children, and according to Hamas between 40,000 and 60,000 children could die in “issue of days” for shortage.
Statistics do not include the hundreds of people who pass out the streets, unable to keep standing, due to lack of food. And it is that the phases of hunger, that relentless machinery, does not stop with 73 trucks. It takes much more, much faster help is needed. The NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has broadcast a video in which Abu Abed Mouchaisib, its medical coordinator in Gaza, explains step by step what happens to the body when you do not eat. “This is how hunger destroys your body,” it starts. “In the first six to 24 hours, blood sugar descends. The body burns glycogen to stay alive,” progresses.
“From three to five days, the muscles begin to break down. The body sacrifices its own tissue, even the heart, only to survive. It is when children stop crying,”
“From one to three days, there is no glycogen. Fat becomes ketones to feed the brain. The body is now in survival mode,” he says. “From three to five days, the muscles begin to break down. The body sacrifices its own tissue, even the heart, only to survive,” he says. “It’s when children stop crying,” he reveals in his terrifying message, in which the doctor confesses that he never thought he was going to experience something like that in his life.
He explains that he has been surviving with a meal a day, which has become every two days, due to the aggravation of the situation, after Israel blocks the access of the aid in March. And it is not because I can’t afford it, but because “there is nothing to buy.” “The markets are completely empty,” he describes. It also tells how ambulance drivers, for example, that lead to malnourished people to medical centers are also suffering that same need. “It is expected of us to save lives, while ours are consumed slowly.” Israel attacks life, but also “dignity and humanity.”
Aesthetic measures
Israel announced on Sunday the beginning of “tactical pauses” of the fighting in a strip next to the Gazatí coast from 10.00 to 20.00 local time (one hour ahead of Madrid) for “humanitarian purposes.” The dynamics will be repeated today. He also said that he would guarantee the security of several routes from 6.00 to 23.00 to facilitate the passage of the trucks of international organizations with help.
Asked by Efe, the army has not clarified what these routes are. However, the troops opened fire against the population at the crossroads of Zikim when they waited for help access within the established hours, causing around a dozen deaths, according to local health authorities.
Israel’s prime minister, Netanyahu, says it is a “shameless lie” that his government is accused of “applying a hunger campaign in the Gaza Strip.” “There is no hunger policy in Gaza, and there is no hunger in Gaza. We allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza throughout the war; otherwise, there would be no inhabitants in Gaza,” said the Israeli president in an encounter with the evangelical pasture and responsible for the United States Faith Office-created under the current mandate of President Donald Trump-Paula White-Cain.
In his interview, in which he has affirmed “to have allowed that among the amount required by international law,” Hamas blamed “to steal humanitarian aid and accuse Israel not to supply it,” while indicating humanitarian organizations already United Nations for, supposedly, not delivering food in the Palestinian enclave because of the fighting.
