UN says the aid collected from the passage of gas after a three -day delay

More than 90 truck loads from humanitarian aid were collected by UN teams in the Gaza Strip, three days after Israel relieved the blockade of 11 weeks.

The aid that included flour, baby food and medical equipment was taken from Kerem Shalom’s intersection on Wednesday night and taken to distribution warehouses. The photos showed a bread producing bread with some of the flour.

The UN said the delays were due to the uncertainty on the route for an access that the Israeli military had approved.

The Israeli authorities said they had allowed an additional 100 truck loads through Kerem Shalom on Wednesday. However, the UN said it was “nowhere close enough to meet the huge gas needs.”

Humanitarian organizations have warned of acute levels of hunger among 2.1 million population, as well as a higher share of children with a diagnosis of acute malnutrition, against the background of significant shortage of essential foods and increasing prices.

A rating from the supported phase of integrated food security (IPC) has also said that half a million people are starving in the coming months.

On Wednesday night, a UN spokesman announced that he “collected about 90 trucks of goods from the intersection of Kerem Shalom and sent them to Gaza.”

A video shared with the BBC showed the trucks using Kerem Shalom’s driving in a convoy along the way in South Gaza.

Other shots have shown that bags of flour are unloaded in a bakery and hundreds of pie bread, which rolls from their ovens on the conveyor belts.

Prior to the operation, the official official world of the World Program (WFP) Antoine Renard told the BBC that assistance problems arise, as Israeli military wanted trucks to move on a route to Gaza, which is considered dangerous. The route, he said, can leave them at risk of attacking desperately hungry civilians and armed criminal gangs.

“At the market prices in Gaza, at the moment, every truck full of flour costs about $ 400,000 (298,000 pounds),” explained G -N Renard.

He added that the solution would be “hundreds of trucks daily” traveling on a safe route to warehouses, noting “the less we provide, the greater the risk and more anxiety created by the population.

Renard said Gaza’s assistance agencies did not hire armed guards to accompany their loads, as they are considered too dangerous, so prolonged cessation of fire and expansion of the current five -day food transfer window is needed.

Israel stopped all supplies to the aid and commercial deliveries to Gaza on March 2 and resumed its military offensive two weeks later, completing a two-month termination of fire with Hamas.

It says the steps aim to put pressure on the armed group to release the 58 hostages who are still held in gas, up to 23 of which are thought to be alive.

Israel also insisted that he had no shortage of help and accused Hamas of theft of supplies to give his fighters or sell to raise money – an accusation that the group refused.

The UN also denied that the aid had been diverted and said that Israel was obliged under international humanitarian law to ensure that food and medicine had reached the population of gas.

On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he allowed a limited amount of food in Gaza so that the Israeli military could continue their recently expanded offensive and take full control of the Palestinian territory.

“We need to avoid a humanitarian crisis in order to maintain our freedom for operational action,” he told a press conference.

Netanyahu also said that the controversial plan of the US and Israel for assistance in Gaza – which will bypass the UN existing facilities and use a private company to distribute hubs from hubs in southern and central gas, protected by security contractors and Israeli troops – will give Israel a “other instrument to win the war.”

The UN and other agencies have said they will not cooperate with the plan, saying that it is contrary to the basic humanitarian principles and it seems that “weapons”.

WFP also warned that it would force 2.1 million people to travel long distances for food.

“This plan is not a solution but a political decision,” Renard said. “Food should go to people, not people to food.”

Meanwhile, Israeli bombing and ground operations continue throughout the gas, with the Hamas Health Ministry reported on Wednesday that 82 people had been killed in the previous 24 hours.

According to the UN, about 81% of the territory that has been subject to Israeli evacuation orders or are located in militarized work areas.

Nearly 600,000 people are believed to have been displaced again since March, including 161,000 who have been forced to run in the last week.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were hostage.

Since then, at least 53 655 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the territory.