Madrid (Europa Press) .- United Nations confirmed on Monday, contacts with the Israel government for the restart of the delivery of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, after the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on Sunday that would end the blockade imposed two months ago to the Palestinian enclave, within the framework of the offensive launched after the attacks of October 7, 2023.
“We have been contacted by the Israeli authorities to restart a limited aid,” said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a brief statement. “We are in discussions with them on how it can take place, taking into account the conditions on the ground,” he added without further details about it.
The Israeli authorities have presented a plan, supported by the United States, which contemplates the creation of aid delivery points, which would be channeled through a “Foundation” of recent creation, in the midst of international criticisms to the proposal, also by the UN, which recently said that “it seems designed to control and restrict further supplies.”
In this context, the World Health Organization (WHO) said last week that at least 57 children had starved in Gaza since March and warned that if the serious humanitarian situation persists about 71 thousand children under five years of age could suffer acute malnutrition in the next eleven months, within the framework of international alarms on the situation in the strip.
The Prime Minister of Israel ordered Sunday the resumption of the entry of humanitarian aid in Gaza, blocked since March 2, about two weeks before the Israeli troops broke the high the fire agreed in January with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and relaunch their military offensive against the enclave.
Netanyahu himself said Monday that Israeli troops “will take all gaza” and have defended their decision to allow the entry of help, recognizing that this measure is caused by the pressures received by their government by their allies, given the deepening of the humanitarian crisis in the enclave because of Israel’s actions.
The Gazati authorities, controlled by Hamas, have raised the Palestinians dead since the beginning of the Israeli military offensive, to which more than 121 thousand injured are added. In addition, they have argued that since March 18, the date on which Israel broke the Alto El Fuego, more than 3,300 dead and about 9,350 wounded have been documented.
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