Hundreds of pallets of food, ranging from rice packets to banana bunches, are lying in the sun along the Israel-Gaza border, a short distance from Palestinian communities facing starvation.
Humanitarian organizations report that they are still having difficulty getting essential aid into southern Gaza, despite the fact that Israel's military has been maintaining a daytime ceasefire on a crucial stretch of road just past the main Kerem Shalom crossing point for the past week.They claim that the increased lawlessness is to blame for why it is too risky to pick up and move items.
According to Georgios Petropoulos, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Gaza, "the looting has become quite profound." According to his estimation, on Tuesday, seventy-five percent of the cargo on lorries arriving from the Hundreds of pallets of food, ranging from rice packets to banana bunches, are lying in the sun along the Israel-Gaza border, a short distance from Palestinian communities facing starvation.
Humanitarian organizations report that they are still having difficulty getting essential aid into southern Gaza, despite the fact that Israel's military has been maintaining a daytime ceasefire on a crucial stretch of road just past the main Kerem Shalom crossing point for the past week.
They claim that the increased lawlessness is to blame for why it is too risky to pick up and move items.
According to Georgios Petropoulos, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Gaza, "the looting has become quite profound." According to his estimation, on Tuesday, seventy-five percent of the cargo on lorries arriving from the were taken by crossing.
According to UN officials, armed gangs, especially those smuggling cigarettes—which fetch outrageous prices on Gaza's underground market—systematically attack and stop the cars. Fuel-transporting lorries into Gaza have also been attacked lately.
Since the Hamas government in Gaza was overthrown by Israel's military campaign, there is currently no strategy in place to take over. The number of police officers remaining in the Palestinian region is quite low. It's unclear if organized crime groups have ties to Gazan tribes or Hamas.
According to Mr. Petropoulos, "meaningful decisions about what we will do for civil order in Gaza and who will take care of delivering that now have to be made." The military organization in charge of running the crossings, Cogat, informed reporters that there was no cap on the quantity of aid that might enter Gaza. We were shown what was allegedly a backlog of over a thousand lorryloads of aid that were waiting to be collected from the Gaza side after passing through security checks.
According to Cogat spokesman Shimon Freedman, "international organizations have not taken sufficient steps to improve their distribution capacity," which is largely to blame for this.
He said that in addition to needing "to increase manpower, to extend working hours, to increase storage," and take other "logistical and organizational steps," the UN, which is the primary relief provider in Gaza, did not have enough trucks.
While touring Kerem Shalom with the media, the Israeli
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