Gaza: Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini said that the volume of aid allowed by the Israeli occupation to enter the Gaza Strip represents only 6 percent of the commercial and humanitarian supplies that were allowed to enter Gaza before the aggression.
According to Qatar News Agency, Lazzarini confirmed in a press statement distributed by the UNRWA media office in Gaza that the daily average of humanitarian aid trucks that the occupation authorities allowed to enter Gaza last month amounted to 30 trucks. He stressed that this number is the lowest in a long time, which returns the level of aid to what it was at the beginning of the aggression.
He added that this number cannot meet the needs of more than two million people, many of whom suffer from hunger and disease and live in desperate conditions. Lazzarini noted that UNRWA is currently continuing to distribute the supplies allowed into the Strip, explaining that it has provid
ed food aid to more than 1.9 million people since the beginning of the aggression.
UNRWA has also provided essential supplies to hundreds of thousands of people in and around its shelters, Lazzarini said. “As the largest provider of primary health care, our teams have provided over 6 million medical consultations,” he added. He stressed that more aid must be allowed in, including through UNRWA, the largest humanitarian organization and service provider in Gaza. Restricting humanitarian access while simultaneously dismantling UNRWA would add a new layer of suffering to what is already untold.