UNITED NATIONS — The UN humanitarian office says the scale and intensity of ground operations and fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian terror groups in most areas of Gaza and their devastating impact is impeding aid deliveries.
“Operational challenges due to insecurity, blocked roads and a scarcity of fuel are also hampering the humanitarian response,” the office, known as OCHA, says in a statement.
OCHA warns that telecommunications blackouts are making communications and internet service unreliable and also impacting humanitarian deliveries.
Yesterday and overnight, it says the primary telecommunications provider in the Gaza Strip reported another halt to those services, citing damage to its infrastructure.
Despite these challenges, OCHA says that between December 23 and December 26 the UN World Food Program reached about half a million people internally displaced in UN shelters south of Wadi Gaza with food parcels, wheat flour, high-energy biscuits and nutrition supplements.
WFP through its partners is also helping thousands of people outside UN shelters at distribution points and community kitchens, OCHA says.
The UN humanitarian agency says it is also working to deliver 50 tons of wheat flour to more than a dozen bakeries in Gaza.
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