UN agencies condemn attacks on shipments in northern Gaza

Tom White, one of the directors of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), said that a food convoy that was hoping to advance towards the northern Gaza Strip was exposed to Israeli naval fire on Monday.

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Other reports from the Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that over the weekend, Israeli forces continued to destroy residential buildings across Gaza, including in the south, east and center of Khan Yunis and in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City. .

In addition to the OCHA complaint, the World Food Program said last Friday that it was unable to reach northern Gaza City for the third time in a week.

“We only received four convoys in January, the equivalent of about 35 trucks full of food, enough for about 130,000 people,” Palestine Program Director Matthew Hollingsworth said in a video clip published by Channel X from Gaza.

The official considered that the shipments were insufficient in light of the increasing levels of hunger in the Strip.

Hollingsworth described the route of aid convoys as they moved through the Strip as “extremely difficult” after nearly four months of continuous Israeli bombing.

He added: “There is more destruction everywhere, debris and closed roads, but there is also active fighting in several areas of the Strip.”

So far, the World Food Program has reached about 1.4 million people with emergency rations, canned food, wheat flour and hot meals, but more help is urgently needed, the UN agency has urged.

At least 27,365 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 66,630 others have been injured since the crisis began on October 7, according to estimates by health authorities in the Strip.

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