In Gaza, aid is “completely paralyzed”, warns the UN
Israel’s closure of key crossing points into the Gaza Strip has cut off key aid floodgates, fuel in particular, and made humanitarian operations virtually impossible, a senior UN official warned on Thursday in an interview with Agence France-Presse.
Although Israel claims to have reopened Kerem Shalom on Wednesday, Andrea De Domenico, the head of the office of the United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories, believes that the delivery of aid remains “extremely difficult”.
” It’s crazy “the Israelis “have tanks everywhere, troops on the ground, they are bombing the area east of Rafah and they want us to go and get fuel or commodities” in these war zones? “They know we just can’t go.”blurted Mr. De Domenico.
The Rafah crossing, through which all fuel destined for Gaza passes, remains closed. Gold, “in Gaza, there are no fuel stocks”. This means that“there are no movements” And “this completely paralyzes humanitarian operations”according to Mr. De Domenico.