UN: "Gaza Conflict Resumes... Humanitarian Aid Deliveries Decrease by 40%"

The United Nations stated that relief supplies are not being properly delivered as the Israeli military resumed military operations in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.

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According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the 5th (local time), about 100 relief supply trucks entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border checkpoint in Egypt the previous day. 69,000 liters of fuel were also loaded onto the trucks.

OCHA explained that during the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas from the 24th to the 30th of last month, an average of 170 trucks and 110,000 liters of fuel entered the Gaza Strip daily. Compared to the ceasefire period, relief supply trucks decreased by 41%, and fuel by 37%.

The areas where relief supplies could be delivered were also limited. Not only in northern Gaza, where infrastructure was destroyed by intensive airstrikes before the temporary ceasefire, but also in the southern region where airstrikes intensified from the 3rd, access to relief facilities became difficult. OCHA stated that the only place where relief supplies were delivered the previous day was the Rafah area in southern Gaza adjacent to Egypt.

Since the previous day, fiber optic cables have been cut in the Gaza Strip, causing communication services to be suspended. In its situation report, OCHA said, "Following the suspension of communication services in northern Gaza, including Gaza City, the previous day, the communication blackout has expanded to the entire Gaza Strip," adding, "This may hinder the movement of relief workers and emergency responders, making their activities difficult."

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