Due to the deliberate obstruction of the Israeli army, only 12 trucks have been able to distribute aid to civilians in Gaza over the past two and a half months, SIR (Servizio Informazione Religiosa) reported, citing “Oxfam“.
In the past 75 days, only 34 UN trucks carrying food and water for the population have entered the northern part of the strip, but due to the deliberate obstruction of the Israeli army, only 12 trucks have been able to distribute aid to civilians.
The contents of three of them were delivered to displaced people who had taken refuge in a school, which was then evacuated and bombed within a few hours.
In early December, humanitarian organizations working in Gaza received calls from people trapped in homes and shelters that were completely without food and water.
Children and women rummage through piles of garbage in search of food, bare-handed, shoeless, risking illness and exposing themselves to the threat of unexploded bombs. Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees in the world, with virtually no healthcare and very limited supplies of medicine, including anesthetics.
To make matters worse, winter conditions are expected to affect more than 1.6 million people camped in makeshift shelters, including half a million exposed in flood-prone areas. So far, only 23% of the displaced have received the necessary assistance to protect themselves from the rain and cold, with over 900,000 left completely unprepared.
At most, the majority of the population can barely afford to buy meager quantities of vegetables. Even securing a piece of bread can be an insurmountable task.