The UN coordinator for the Middle East, Tor Wennesland, described this Tuesday in the Security Council as “positive”, but still far from being necessary, the measures imposed by Israel to allow the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
“The delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip continues to face almost insurmountable challenges (…). Israel’s limited measures, including the authorization to allow more fuel, food and cooking gas and the opening of Kerem Shalom/Karem Abu Salem for the arrival of aid are positive, but they are far from sufficient compared to what is needed to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe on the ground,” the representative said.
The Israeli Army launched an offensive against the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for the attack perpetrated by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on October 7 in Israeli territory, which killed some 1,140 people, most of them civilians, according to the latest official Israeli data, cited by international agencies.
Around 250 hostages were also taken on the day of the attack, 129 of whom remain captive in Gaza.
In that overcrowded and poor Palestinian enclave, more than 19,600 people, mostly women, children and adolescents, died from Israeli bombings, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Health supervised by Hamas, in power in Gaza since 2007 and classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel.
To these Palestinian deaths are added more than 280 since October 7 at the hands of the Israeli army and in attacks by settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Source: TSF
