UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini has said Israeli authorities allowed only 30 trucks of aid a day to enter Gaza, bringing assistance to its “lowest in a long time.”
This is equivalent to only six percent of commercial and humanitarian supplies entering Gaza before the war broke out on October 7, 2023, he said on social media platform X.
Lazzarini warned this was insufficient to respond to the needs of over 2 million people, “many of whom are starving, sick and in desperate conditions.”
Israel on Monday notified the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which is the largest provider of aid in the occupied Palestinian territories, that it was cancelling a cooperation agreement from 1967 which provided a legal basis to its operations.
In a legally binding order, the International Criminal Justice (ICJ) in March ordered Israel to open more land crossings to allow aid into Gaza. The measures were requested by South Africa as part of its continuing case that accuses Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza.
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