Together, Salama Maarouf, head of the government media office in Gaza, said that the number of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip during this week reached (1,063) aid trucks, with (205) trucks entering from the Rafah crossing, and (858) trucks from the Kerem Abu Salem crossing, While only (49) of these trucks entered the northern Gaza Strip.
He explained that this number is much less than the needs of the Palestinian people, especially in northern Gaza, and it contradicts the American and Israeli statements that talk about increasing aid trucks and claim to bring 300 aid trucks daily.
He stressed that the occupation’s practices of restricting the work of relief institutions, targeting their crews, preventing them from working, and controlling the quantities of food that reach our people to keep them below the levels of food security are achieved. We affirm that these practices are crimes that require accountability, and contradict the measures issued by the International Court of Justice.
Marouf called fo
r the permanent opening of all crossings into the Gaza Strip, and facilitating the arrival of aid at least 1,000 trucks per day, to overcome the effects of the food crisis that is afflicting our citizens in the center and south of the Strip, and to end the famine and lack of food security indicators in the northern Strip, calling for a more effective role for UNRWA. And relief organizations affiliated with the United Nations, such as the World Food Programme, and lifting the hand of occupation from these organizations, ending all forms of restrictions on them, and allowing them to carry out their work freely.
Source: Maan News Agency