NEW YORK, (PIC)
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA) has said that humanitarian convoys were unable to deliver critical supplies and fuel to hospitals in the war-torn Gaza Strip due to Israeli obstacles.
“Today, two-thirds of coordinated humanitarian missions in Gaza were impeded or significantly delayed by the Israeli authorities,” OCHA said in its X page on Saturday.
“On average, each of these missions faced nearly five hours of delay before being allowed to proceed,” OCHA added.
“Some waited so long they had to turn back, while others proceeded but significantly curtailed their operations due to the limited remaining time. As a result, critical supplies, equipment and fuel for back-up generators were not provided to hospitals and assessments of people’s need in multiple locations were cancelled,” OCHA elaborated.
“The occupying power’s obligation to facilitate relief operations does not end when supplies are dropped off at the border. It only ends when aid reaches the people who need it,” it underlined.
In a related context, the Government Media Office in Gaza said that the total number of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip daily ranges, on average, between 130 and 150, adding that Israeli claims of about 300 trucks were “lies.”
