Israel informed the United Nations on Tuesday (Oct 14) that it will only allow 300 aid trucks, half the agreed number, to enter the Gaza Strip each day starting Wednesday, a document seen by Reuters and confirmed by the UN shows.
This document also specifies that no shipment of fuel or gasoline may enter the Palestinian enclave, except for specific needs linked to the operation of humanitarian facilities.
Olga Cherevko, spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, confirmed that the United Nations had received the note from the Israeli military body that oversees the delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip.
“We urgently need treatment”
That body, COGAT, said Friday it expected about 600 aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip daily during the ceasefire that came into effect last week.
In Geneva, the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross called for the opening of all crossing points to allow more humanitarian aid to reach the territory with its infrastructure largely destroyed.
“We urgently need cancer treatments” and incubators for neonatal care, echoes Mohammed Abou Salmiya, director of Al Chifa hospital in Gaza.
In the city where bulldozers were clearing debris on Tuesday, “the top priority,” according to Mayor Yahya al-Sarraj, is “opening the roads and an urgent need for construction materials, particularly cement.”
At a summit on Gaza in Egypt on Monday, Trump co-signed a statement aimed at cementing the ceasefire following the exchange of hostages and detainees between Israel and Hamas agreed to in the plan negotiated under the auspices of the United States, Egypt and Qatar.
Source: BFM TV
