More than 24,000 tons of UN aid has reached Gaza since the start of a ceasefire earlier this month, a UN official says while calling for NGOs to be allowed to assist in its distribution.
While aid volumes are significantly up compared to the period before the ceasefire, humanitarians still face funding shortfalls, the UN says, as well as issues coordinating with Israeli authorities.
“Starting from the ceasefire, we brought over 24,000 metric tonnes of aid through all the crossings, and we have restarted both community- and household-based (aid) distributions,” says the UN Resident Coordinator Office’s deputy special coordinator for Palestinian territories, Ramiz Alakbarov.
The World Food Program’s Middle East regional director Samer AbdelJaber says in 20 days of scale-up following the ceasefire they “have collected about 20,000 metric tons of food inside Gaza.”
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