‘The entire Palestinian population in North Gaza is at imminent risk of disease, famine and violence’ according to aid agencies
Palestinian boys collect flour scraped from the ground after a bag fell from an aid truck in the central Gaza Strip. Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images
On October 13th, Mr Dermer and Mr Gallant received a letter from Mr Blinken and US defence secretary Lloyd Austin giving Israel 30 days to take specific measures to enable a minimum of 350 trucks to enter Gaza each day.UK government targets vaping which may not go down well with Westminster’s secret suckerThe United Nations children’s agency Unicef, world Food Programme and other aid groups have declared the situation in northern Gaza – where Israel is battling Hamas – as “apocalyptic”.
According to the UN Office for Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, a daily average of 36 trucks entered Gaza during October – far below the pre-war average of 500 trucks a day. The letter on October 13th called for pauses in hostilities to allow aid deliveries and humanitarian activities and enhance security for aid movements and sites. The US warned that continued US military supplies could depend on Israel’s compliance with US law which prohibits arms aid to countries obstructing humanitarian aid. Washington has provided Israel with $17.9 billion in security assistance since the Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023, according to the Watson Institute at Brown University.
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