According to the Palestinian aid agency UNRWA, there is a risk that humanitarian aid supplies to the people of the Gaza Strip will collapse within two days due to a lack of fuel. With fuel unable to be delivered to the Palestinian territory, “the humanitarian operation must be stopped within hours,” Thomas White, head of UNRWA in the Gaza Strip, warned on Monday.
On Monday morning, two drinking water subcontractors had to stop work due to a lack of fuel, White explained.
This means that 200,000 people would no longer have drinking water.
The Palestinian prime minister also calls for more aid corridors
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, who rules in the West Bank, has called on the EU and the United Nations to drop aid across the Gaza Strip. Aid supplies should be dropped mainly in the north of the Palestinian territory, “as has been done countless times around the world,” Shtayyeh said on Monday.
The Palestinian prime minister demanded that more humanitarian aid be delivered on land and that additional ‘aid corridors’ be set up next to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
The Rafah border crossing is the only option for the transport of relief supplies
The Rafah border crossing is currently the only way for trucks carrying humanitarian aid such as food, drinking water, medicine or tents to enter the Gaza Strip, which has been fought over and closed off for weeks. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), 981 trucks have delivered aid to the Gaza Strip so far. Considering the 2.4 million inhabitants of the area, this aid is far from sufficient.
Gaza Strip: Half of the inhabitants flee
Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, the Israeli army has launched massive attacks on targets in the Gaza Strip, and ground forces have now also invaded Palestinian territory. According to Hamas figures, which cannot be independently verified, 11,180 people had been killed in the Israeli attacks as of Sunday evening. About half of the 2.4 million inhabitants in the narrow coastal area are on the run.
Hundreds of fighters from Hamas, classified as a terrorist organization by the US and EU, entered Israel on October 7 and committed atrocities, mainly against civilians, including many children. According to Israeli information, about 1,200 people were killed in Israel and about 240 people were taken hostage to the Gaza Strip.
Source: Krone
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