While the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announced the temporary closure of all aid distribution centres in the Palestinian territory, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) affirmed that the current aid distribution model is ineffective.
“The current aid distribution model in the Gaza Strip is not working,” UNRWA communications director Juliette Touma said.
“It’s as if you’re inviting people to their own death,” she added, stressing that the only way to deliver humanitarian aid at scale and safely to the people of Gaza is through the United Nations, including UNRWA.
In remarks to CNN yesterday, she described the agency’s operations during the ceasefire as ‘successful and tangible’, and urged that the agency be allowed to carry out its work.
Meanwhile, a medical source in Gaza reported yesterday that hospitals in the Strip had received 95 dead and 304 wounded people in the past 48 hours.
At least 15 civilians were killed and about 50 others injured yesterday in what was described as ‘a new massacre committed by the Israeli occupation in the Al Sabra neighbourhood in Gaza City’, the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported.
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