Help agencies say they would like to deliver help, but that Israel has accumulated the process with delays and denials, changing schedules and routes, sometimes in the last minute, which makes it difficult or impossible to recover help for distribution.
Half of the 138 requests from the World Food Program carried out in the last week to collect help from the retention sites were denied, the agency said Friday.
Even after being approved to load the aid, the WFP said that “convoys are generally delayed”, and take up to 46 hours before receiving the final approval to travel along the strip.
Israel has long maintained that restrictions exist to prevent Hamas from stealing food, although an internal analysis of the United States government cited by Reuters has not found evidence that Hamas has systematic theft of supplies by Hamas in the last 20 months.
On Friday, WFP said it had 300 help trucks waiting to be distributed within Gaza, and Unrwa said it had around 6,000 help trucks in Jordan and Egypt that also expected to be approved.
“Allow the UN, including UNRWA and our partners, operate on a scale and without bureaucratic or political obstacles,” said Philippe Lazzarini, general commissioner of the UNRWA, on Saturday in a publication about X.
Lazzarini also criticized Israel for allowing the help countries of foreign countries in foreign countries to call him “Distractions and screenshots.” A previous effort for the help of air fall in March last year He proved insufficient to feed the population, as the humanitarian agencies warned at that time.
Delayed convoys
Each delayed convoy means more and more desperate people who gather along the known help delivery routes, waiting to intercept incoming trucks. This has led people to ambush Help trucks, which according to agencies represent a danger to their workers.
“During these delays, multitudes of famous people often anticipate the arrival of our trucks and gather along the expected transport routes that are very few,” said the PMA.
Israeli troops have triggered to gather crowds, and the number of people killed in these separate but regular incidents has totaled more than 1000, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Wednesday. Incidents near the distribution sites administered by the United States and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation supported by Israel have been particularly violent.
UM SAEED AL-REEFI had walked to a distribution Site near Rafah on Thursday, and spoke with the NBC News team on the floor, still holding their empty bags.
“I just want to feed my daughter something. But they attacked us: Spraypper, bullets, gas. I couldn’t breathe. I ran for my life. I returned, as you see … empty -handed,” he said. NBC News has not independently verified its attack account.
On Friday, at least 16 people were killed northwest of the city of Gaza while waiting for help, Dr. Khalil Al-Daqran, spokesman for the Ministry of Health of Gaza, told NBC.
“What is missing at this time is a safe and sustained access,” said the United Nations Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs on Friday. “Workers face a constant danger, the crosses are not reliable and the critical elements are routinely blocked,” he said.
The distribution of help in Gaza has not always been so poor or fatal.
Last year, when the aid was allowed to enter through Rafah’s crossing along the Egyptian border, the delivery, although scarce, was regular and the UN agencies, mainly UNRWA, could distribute help without generalized attacks or looting.
Gaza’s police force was also more present and provided security, but months of Israeli bombing have paralyzed the police and greater despair among the public.
