Oct 27, 2023 at 1:12 PM Update: an hour ago
A medical team and ten trucks carrying aid entered the Gaza Strip via Egypt on Friday. This brings the number of trucks that have crossed the border since last Saturday to 84. The UN calls the situation in Gaza “painful”.
A Palestinian border official shared the news about the trucks with the news agency Reuters. It was subsequently confirmed by the International Red Cross (ICRC).
The aid consists of ten foreign doctors and six trucks with water, food and medicine. It has not yet been possible to get fuel into the Gaza Strip.
Lynn Hastings, the UN aid coordinator in the Palestinian Territories, says negotiations are underway with Israel for more humanitarian aid for Gaza. Aid has been limited so far. According to Hastings, this is due to technical issues, political issues and security issues.
Before the war, about 450 trucks carrying aid arrived in Gaza every day, according to the UN official.
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‘Assistance is being questioned’
Meanwhile, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) says the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is continuing to deteriorate.
“Basic services have collapsed, medicines, food and water are running out and the sewage system is no longer functioning. An acute health crisis is looming,” said UNRWA Commissioner Philippe Lazzarini.
Lazzarini adds that the organization itself has had to “dramatically” reduce its own fuel consumption. “We have had to make difficult decisions. What should function? Is that the bakery, or the ventilator in a hospital?”
According to Lazzarini, it is “painful” to note that questions are constantly being raised about the provision of aid to Gaza. “Humanitarian aid is a fundamental right.”
The government is allocating another 15 million euros for aid to Gaza
The government is making another 15 million euros available for humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza. This was announced by outgoing Minister Liesje Schreinemacher (Development Cooperation) on Friday shortly after the Council of Ministers.
The region previously received 10 million euros in aid from the Netherlands.
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