UN deplores aid barriers as Israel’s Gaza onslaught steps up
Al Jazeera
Aid convoy attack and intense air strikes on refugee camps in central Gaza add to humanitarian crisis.
The United Nations has warned that it is becoming increasingly difficult to get desperately needed aid into Gaza.
The UN’s humanitarian aid chief on Friday called out the “impossible situation” facing people in Gaza and those trying to help them, as the humanitarian situation on the ground worsens and dozens more civilians are reported killed in Israeli attacks.
“You think getting aid into Gaza is easy? Think again,” Martin Griffiths said in a post on the social media platform X, expressing frustration at how life-saving assistance is being hampered from entering the war-torn Strip.
Griffiths listed 14 obstructions to getting humanitarian relief into the enclave, including: constant bombardments and aid convoys coming under fire; three layers of inspections before an aid truck can enter the Palestinian territory; a constant list of rejected items; and aid workers themselves being killed and displaced by the war.
“This is an impossible situation … The fighting must stop,” he said.
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