Palestinian authorities warned this Saturday (21) that the volume of aid that arrived in the Gaza Strip “is not enough” to alleviate the deteriorating humanitarian situation. Water, food and medicine were sent to the enclave, which did not receive fuel.
The head of the Hamas-controlled Government’s Social Communications Office, Salama Marouf, said the aid convoy “will not be able to change the humanitarian catastrophe that the Gaza Strip is experiencing.”
He further reinforced the importance “of establishing a safe corridor that operates 24 hours a day to provide the humanitarian and service needs that are currently completely absent.”
Marouf also highlighted “the need to permanently open the Rafah crossing” in order to facilitate the evacuation of the wounded from Gaza.
Separately, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said in a statement on Saturday that the aid delivered on Saturday “constitutes only 3% of the daily health and humanitarian needs that used to enter the Gaza Strip before the aggression”.
Fuel did not arrive with humanitarian aid
The trucks that crossed the Rafah border this Saturday to deliver aid to Gaza were carrying food, water and medicine, but had no fuel.
According to Egyptian authorities, at the Rafah crossing, 13 trucks were transporting medicines and medical supplies, five were transporting food and two trucks were transporting water.
A Palestinian spokesman for the border crossing said Saturday that aid trucks do not have “sufficient” supplies for even one school in Gaza. CNN cannot verify this claim.
The head of communications on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, Wael Abu Mohsen, also told Saudi state media Al Hadath TV in an interview on Saturday that fuel had not been delivered, “despite fuel supplies being dangerously low in hospitals and schools.” in Gaza.”
The Ministry of Health added that “excluding the entry of fuel as part of humanitarian aid will continue to pose a threat to the lives of patients and the injured”, with hospital resources in Gaza “completely exhausted”.
The ministry called on the international community “to take immediate action to provide fuel and urgent health supplies before more lives are lost inside hospitals,” adding that “seven hospitals and 25 health facilities were out of service due to attacks and exhaustion of fuel”.
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