UN aid chief reports some ‘progress’ in easing Gaza aid movement restrictions

By Agencies 27 July 2025, 11:28 pm

2 Edit

People carry food parcels and bags in the al-Mawasi camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, that were picked up from the Rafah corridor on July 27, 2025. (AFP)

United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher says that some movement restrictions appear to have been eased by Israel in Gaza today, after Israel decided to “support a one-week scale-up of aid.”

Fletcher says in a statement that initial reports indicate that more than 100 truckloads of aid were collected from crossings to be transported into Gaza.

“This is progress, but vast amounts of aid are needed to stave off famine and a catastrophic health crisis,” he adds.

He says that the UN will try to reach “as many starving people” as possible within the one-week window.

Meanwhile, the UN’s World Food Programme says it has enough food in, or on its way to, the region to feed the over 2.1 million people in the Gaza Strip for almost three months.