Israel announced last Sunday that it would pause military activity in some areas to allow Gaza’s greater help after international indignation for generalized starvation and malnutrition deaths caused by the offensive and help restrictions of the Israeli army.
But humanitarian organizations say that the amount of help that has entered the enclave is not enough, and without more food, the growing number of Palestinians will die for hunger.
NBC News analyzes how much help has entered Gaza in the week since Israel announced the new system and how that accumulates the needs of the population.
A help count
Humanitarian aid is currently entering Gaza in three ways: aerdrops, distribution of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation backed by the United States and Israel, and the United Nations and other aid organizations used by the newly trained “humanitarian runners” that the Israeli army established last week.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which began to distribute help in the enclave at the end of May, has been widely sentenced by the hundreds of people murdered, often by Israeli soldiers, near their help sites and for its limited distribution.
Last Sunday, GHF distributed around 1 million meals and at least another 1.2 million from Monday to Wednesday, and 1.3 million on Thursday. GHF did not seem to publish the amount of meals distributed on Friday, but on Saturday he said he launched at least 1.7 million meals.
In a population of approximately 2 million people, this averages a little less than a full meal per person per day.
Cogat, the Israeli military branch responsible for supervising Gaza aid, allowed an average of around 230 trucks in Gaza every day from Sunday to Thursday, according to the data that has been published online. He says that these trucks add up to “hundreds” that are already in the enclave waiting for the collection of help groups, but have not shared the exact number. Cogat did not respond to a request for more information on the total number of trucks waiting for compilation.
At least 920 aid trucks allowed in the enclave It had been compiled and distributed by the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations last Sunday to Thursday, according to COGAT data.
Before Israel’s offensive began in Gaza, around 500 trucks that transported help were entering Gaza daily, according to the British Red Cross and other organizations.
The following graph shows how the amount of help that Gaza enters shot during the high fire between Israel and Hamas, before stopping during the blockade of Israel, with only one drip in the months after its survey.
He requested the number of trucks allowed in Gaza and collected by humanitarian groups on Friday and Saturday, Cogat did not respond immediately.
Although COGAT has shared information about trucks that enter Gaza and have been collected by help groups in their social media pages during the past week, it has not updated its online board in help to Gaza since Monday, despite the international approach in the matter.
According to the World Food Program, only about two thirds of the amount of foods that the UN Organization requested that the Israeli authorities allow Gaza to have been approved as of Thursday since the Israeli army began the tactical pauses.
How Israeli restrictions caused the hunger crisis
The hunger crisis in Gaza worsened drastically in March after Israel imposed a block that except the entry of help to Gaza, in the middle of its high fire with Hamas.
Israel lifted the paralyzing blockade in May, but for months, it has only allowed a limited amount of help to enter the enclave, most of which have been distributed by the group backed by the United States and Israel known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
COGAT did not immediately respond to a request for comments from NBC News about the accusation that the amount of help in Gaza is not enough. He He has previously accused humanitarian groups, including the United Nations, of exacerbating hunger by not collecting and distributing help to Palestinians quick enough.
However, humanitarian organizations have said that efforts to distribute the limited help they have been able to obtain in Gaza have been hindered by Israeli restrictions. They have also emphasized that even after Israel promised to raise some restrictions last Sunday, the amount of help that enters the enclave is still limited.
Meanwhile, WFP has said that it needs faster approvals and authorizations to move trucks inside Gaza safely, as well as for the Israeli military to adhere to the “established compromise rules”, which include not having an armed presence or shooting near humanitarian convoys, food and operations distributions.
What is needed?
“This is not an adequate response,” Jeanette Bailey, director of global practice of the Global Committee of the International Rescue Committee on Wednesday, in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
A gradual help “here or there,” he said, “it will not be adequate to prevent us from entering a full -fledged hambruna where they go a lot, up.”
