A UN humanitarian spokesperson said that approximately 100 trucks were allowed to enter the Gaza Strip.
"We requested and received approval for many more trucks to enter Gaza today (Tuesday)," a UN official said.
A World Health Organization official stated that "the amount of aid allowed into Gaza is completely insufficient."
On Monday, the foreign ministers of 22 countries, including France, Germany, Britain, Canada, Japan, and Australia, called on Israel in a joint statement to "re-permit the full and immediate entry of aid" into the Gaza Strip under the supervision of the United Nations and non-governmental organizations.
Later, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator announced that nine UN trucks carrying humanitarian aid had been allowed into the Gaza Strip, describing it as "a drop in the ocean."
However, relief workers in the Gaza Strip revealed that only five trucks entered the Strip, refuting the occupation's claims regarding the nine trucks.
worsening malnutrition
In the same context, Akihiro Seita, Director of the Health Department at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said on Tuesday: "I have data up to the end of April that shows an increase in malnutrition."
"If the current food shortage continues, it will steadily worsen and then get out of our control," Sita warned at a press conference in Geneva.
The security cabinet approved the immediate entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza on Saturday evening, following a halt of more than two months since the resumption of the war on the Strip, due to intense American pressure on Tel Aviv.
Since March 2, Israel has pursued a policy of systematic starvation against approximately 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza by closing the crossings to aid supplies piling up at the border, pushing the Strip into a state of famine and claiming many lives.
With full American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 174,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.
