Samantha Power , director of the American Agency for International Development, claimed earlier today (Thursday) that there is famine in the northern Gaza Strip. "Although there has been no new assessment, conditions remain difficult," she said. Power cited the UN's IPC report and said that northern Gaza could suffer from famine between mid-March and May.
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However, the coordinator of the government's operations in the territories, Colonel Rasan Aliyan , this evening published a record of the contents of 600 aid trucks on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing that had been accumulated over the past week, as they await collection and distribution by UN officials. Meanwhile, in recent days, a significant increase in the amount of humanitarian aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip has begun, after an Israeli security inspection.
However, the rate of collection and distribution of goods by the UN is slow, in light of the lack of logistical capabilities, along with gaps in manpower that led, among other things, to the accumulation of the contents of hundreds of trucks this week, which resulted in flooding on the Palestinian side of the crossing, which prevents Israel from transferring additional humanitarian aid to the Strip.
The coordinator of the government's operations in the territories, Major General Rasan Aliyan: "We have extended the hours of operation and added inspection measures. The logistical gaps for the collection and distribution of aid prove that Israel is not a bottleneck when it comes to the provision of humanitarian aid. The UN must carry out the work it is entrusted with and do it as required The lack of UN capabilities actually harms the humanitarian effort led by Israel."
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