In the Gaza Strip, the distribution of the first humanitarian aid in over two months has begun. On Monday, aid goods entered the Palestinian territory for the first time since March 2.
The first arrived goods were still in trucks at the Kerem Shalom border crossing. The United Nations said that they could not be collected because the route provided by Israel was unsafe. There were also fears of looting.
The UN has now collected about ninety trucks with goods and sent them to Gaza, UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told news agency AFP. The aid allowed so far is far from enough, according to the UN and aid organizations.
Earlier, the UN and aid organizations said that at least five to six hundred trucks per day are needed to maintain aid in Gaza.
Israel, which has blocked the supply in recent times, reported this weekend that it would allow a “basic amount” of aid to the Palestinian territory. Soon, the country wants to do the aid in the Gaza Strip completely by itself. Aid organizations and various countries, including the Netherlands, are critical of that plan.
Meanwhile, there is a shortage of just about everything in the Gaza Strip, experts told NU.nl on Wednesday. In the article below you can read more about the consequences of this.