The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) denounced this Tuesday that deliveries of humanitarian aid from the last month could not be carried out in the areas besieged by the Israeli Army in the northern Gazajoining the complaints from others organisms and NGO humanitarian.
“All UN attempts to access the besieged areas of northern Gaza with food and health supplies this month were denied or prevented,” OCHA said in a statement, refuting the arguments of the Israeli authorities, which They insist that since October more than 700 aid trucks to the Strip.
Humanitarian organizations affirm that the situation in the enclave is “worse than ever”
Today is the deadline 30 days given by USA so that Israel improve humanitarian aid entry into Gaza and, on the occasion of this expiration, eight humanitarian organizations stated that The situation in the enclave is “worse than ever”.
“Israel has not met the demands of its ally, with enormous human cost for Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” the organizations said in a joint report. Anera, care, MedGlobal, Mercy Corpshe Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Oxfam, Refugees International and Save the Children.
In this sense, OCHA emphasizes that “In October, the amount of aid entering Gaza was the lowest this year“. Furthermore, he emphasizes that of the 19 requests he submitted to deliver humanitarian aid in November, 16 “were denied by the Israeli authorities or were unable to reach people who urgently needed humanitarian assistance.
“Of the three missions that were able to enter the besieged area, all faced serious impediments“, says OCHA, which mentions, among others, “delays, the looting of supplies at holding points” or “the forced unloading of supplies at an Israeli checkpoint.”
On the other hand, OCHA reported this Monday that the World Food Program (PMA) managed to deliver a convoy of three trucks to the shelters of Beit Hanunin northern Gaza, two with ready-to-eat foods and flour and a third with water.
The organization noted that it was the first time in more than a month that the population of Beit Hanun had access to humanitarian assistance and that the caravan, in principle, should have been made up of fourteen aid trucks.
“Following the delivery of aid, there have been reports of intense shelling and that Israeli forces surrounded the area where WFP was distributing aid and told families to flee,” OCHA notes.
On October 13, in a letter, the Secretaries of State and Defense of the United States, Anthony Blinken and Lloyd Austinrespectively, urged Israel, among other things, to allow 350 trucks a day into Gaza. They also requested to open a fifth access crossing, allow displaced people in tents to go from the coast of Mawasi inland before winter and ensure access for aid groups to the besieged north.
If not, the US government warned that it could be forced to reduce its military support to Israel, essential for the continuation of the war.
At least 62 deaths in Gaza in the last 48 hours
At least 62 people died in Gaza and others 147 were injured by israeli attacks in the last two days, according to the latest count published by the Ministry of Health of the enclave, governed by Hamas.
These victims raise 43,665 the total count of deaths in more than thirteen months of war in the Stripof which around 70% are women and children, while the injured number 103,076. In addition, the ministry recalls the nearly 10,000 bodies that remain in the rubble or on the roads of the enclave without Civil Defense rescue teams having been able to access them.
In the bombing this Tuesday against a cafe in Mawasipart of the “humanitarian zone” established by the Israeli Army, 11 people died, Palestinian sources reported.
The café, an improvised infrastructure on the sand of the beach with metal plates and fabrics, was the access point to Internet. It was located in the “humanitarian zone” in which nearly two million Palestinians are crammed into tents under orders from the Army.
Another 11 people died in Rafaha city at the southern end of the Strip, in the area of Moraj by the attack of an Israeli drone directed at a motorcycle, which affected a group of civilians gathered in the area.
One of the latest attacks occurred in Deir al Balahin central Gaza, where a Israeli drone attacked a group of citizens gathered in the street. According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, Six people died in the attack.
In the refugee camp Nuseiratalso in the center, three other people died in a bombing against the house, and their bodies were taken to the hospital Al Awda of the area.
In Gaza City, in the north of the enclave, a quadropter drone bombed a sector of the neighborhood of Sheikh Radwanand killed another person, while around twenty were injured. The Israeli armed forces maintain a siege for about five weeks in the north of the enclave, which has claimed the lives of some 1,800 peopleaccording to the Hamas Government. In addition, the arrival of humanitarian aid to its population has been drastically reduced.
“Troops located and dismantled several rocket launchers aimed at the Israeli communities close to the Gaza Strip,” stated this Tuesday a military statement about the Army’s operations in Yabalia which, along with Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, are under military siege.
There, the armed forces said they had eliminated “dozens” of militiamen, without giving exact numbers or the group to which they belonged. Last night, four Israeli soldiers 20 and 21 years old died in Jabalia due to an attack by Palestinian militiamen with a anti tank missilewhich Israeli Army casualties rise to 375 during the ground offensive in Gaza.
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