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UN welcomes IDF announcement of Gaza ‘tactical pauses’ on key route for aid deliveries
A bundle of humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip with the logo of World Central Kitchen (WCK) on a truck at the Kerem Shalom border crossing in southern Israel, on May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
The UN welcomes an Israeli decision to pause fighting around a south Gaza route daily for aid deliveries, but urges more “concrete measures” to increase the humanitarian response.
Israel’s military announced earlier a “local, tactical pause of military activity” during daylight hours on a route in south Gaza to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance in the war-torn Strip.
“We welcome this announcement,” UN aid agency OCHA’s spokesman Jens Laerke says in an email to AFP, noting though that “this has yet to translate into more aid reaching people in need.”
“We hope this leads to further concrete measures by Israel to address longstanding issues preventing a meaningful humanitarian response in Gaza,” he says.
