More than 90 truckloads of humanitarian aid have entered Gaza, three days after Israel eased an 11-week-long blockade.
The aid, which included flour, baby food, and medical supplies, was picked up at the Kerem Shalom crossing and delivered to warehouses for distribution. Images captured bakeries using the flour to bake bread for local communities.
The UN said aid distribution was delayed due to security concerns along the sole route approved by the Israeli military. Despite allowing 100 more truckloads on Wednesday, the UN emphasized the volume was “nowhere near enough” to meet Gaza’s dire needs.
Humanitarian organizations report alarming hunger levels among Gaza’s 2.1 million residents, with skyrocketing food prices and extreme shortages. Palestinian Authority Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan stated that 29 children and elderly individuals recently died from “starvation-related” causes.
The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) warned that up to 500,000 people in Gaza face the threat of starvation in the coming months.
Footage shared with the BBC showed convoys of aid trucks traveling through southern Gaza, unloading goods at bakeries. Amjad al-Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network, noted that UN-supported bakeries would produce bread for the most vulnerable.
The Red Cross managed to deliver a single truckload of medical supplies to a field hospital in Rafah. “A trickle of trucks is woefully inadequate,” said the ICRC, stressing the need for a sustained and secure aid corridor.
World Food Programme official Antoine Renard highlighted that a single truck of flour now holds a market value of about $400,000 in Gaza, due to scarcity. He urged for the daily delivery of hundreds of aid trucks along safe routes, warning that limited aid escalates risks and public anxiety.
Renard also revealed that aid agencies in Gaza avoid using armed guards for cargo protection due to safety concerns, stressing the need for a longer ceasefire and extended transfer windows.
Israel had halted all aid to Gaza on March 2 and resumed its offensive two weeks later, ending a prior ceasefire. The move, Israel said, was intended to pressure Hamas to release the 58 remaining hostages. Israel has accused Hamas of stealing aid, a claim the group denies. The UN also denied diversion of supplies, stating that Israel is legally obligated to ensure the delivery of food and medicine.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said limited food deliveries were allowed to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe while maintaining military momentum. He emphasized the goal of full Israeli security control over Gaza and the defeat of Hamas.
The UN said the aid was “nowhere near enough to meet the vast needs in Gaza”
Netanyahu also defended a controversial new US-Israeli aid plan that circumvents the UN and relies on private contractors and Israeli security to distribute food. Humanitarian agencies, including the UN and WFP, have rejected the plan, arguing it undermines core humanitarian principles and effectively “weaponizes aid.”
Renard warned the plan would force 2.1 million Gazans to travel long distances for food: “This is not a solution. It’s a political decision. Food should go to the people—not the people to the food.”
Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes and ground operations persist. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry reported 107 deaths in the past 24 hours, including 52 since Thursday morning. Among the dead were 16 people from one family, killed in a strike on a home in Jabalia.
Israel has issued evacuation orders for Jabalia and 13 other northern neighborhoods, claiming that terrorist activity is ongoing. The UN estimates that 81% of Gaza is now under evacuation orders or designated as military no-go zones. Nearly 600,000 people have been newly displaced since March—161,000 of them just in the last week.
Israel’s military campaign began after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 cross-border attack, which killed approximately 1,200 people and resulted in 251 hostages. Since then, over 53,700 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including at least 16,500 children, according to the territory’s health authorities.
News source: BBC site
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