Israel still blocking most Gaza aid as military carries out more attacks

Gaza Government Media Office says conscionable 24 percent of agreed assistance allowed into Gaza since ceasefire woody came into force.

Authorities successful Gaza accidental that Israel has lone allowed a fraction of the humanitarian assistance deliveries agreed connected arsenic portion of the United States-brokered ceasefire into the enclave since the statement came into effect past month.

In a connection connected Saturday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said that 3,203 commercialized and assistance trucks brought supplies into Gaza betwixt October 10 and 31. This is an mean of 145 assistance trucks per day, oregon conscionable 24 percent of the 600 trucks that are meant to beryllium entering Gaza regular arsenic portion of the deal, it added.

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“We powerfully condemn the Israeli occupation’s obstruction of assistance and commercialized trucks and clasp it afloat liable for the worsening and deteriorating humanitarian concern faced by much than 2.4 cardinal radical successful the Gaza Strip,” the bureau said successful a statement.

It besides called connected US President Donald Trump and different ceasefire woody mediators to enactment unit connected Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza “without restrictions and conditions”.

While assistance deliveries person accrued since the truce came into force, Palestinians crossed Gaza proceed to look shortages of food, water, medicine and different captious supplies arsenic a effect of Israeli restrictions.

Many families besides deficiency capable structure arsenic their homes and neighbourhoods person been completely destroyed successful Israel’s two-year subject bombardment.

A spokesperson for United Nations main Antonio Guterres said connected Thursday that the UN’s humanitarian bureau reported that assistance postulation has been “limited” owed to the “rerouting ordered by the Israeli authorities”.

“You volition callback that convoys are present forced to spell done the Philadelphi Corridor on the borderline with Egypt, and past up the constrictive coastal road. This roadworthy is narrow, damaged and heavy congested,” Farhan Haq told reporters.

“Additional crossings and interior routes are needed to grow collections and response.”

Meanwhile, the Israeli subject has continued to transportation retired attacks crossed Gaza successful usurpation of the ceasefire agreement.

On Saturday, Israeli combatant jets, artillery and tanks shelled areas astir Khan Younis, successful the southbound of the territory. The service besides demolished residential buildings eastbound of the Jabalia exile campy successful bluish Gaza.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reported that witnesses successful Khan Younis described “constant dense shelling and drone occurrence hitting what’s near of residential homes and farmland” beyond the alleged yellowish line, wherever Israeli forces are deployed.

“We person besides been told by Gaza’s Civil Defence bureau that it’s struggling to scope immoderate sites adjacent to the yellowish enactment due to the fact that of the continuation of aerial strikes and Israeli drones hovering overhead,” Abu Azzoum said.

Israeli attacks connected Gaza person killed astatine slightest 222 Palestinians and wounded 594 others since the ceasefire took effect, according to the Ministry of Health successful the enclave.

Israeli leaders person defended the continued subject strikes and accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire statement by not returning each the bodies of deceased Israeli captives from the enclave.

But the Palestinian radical says that retrieval efforts person been analyzable by wide demolition successful Gaza, arsenic good arsenic by Israeli restrictions connected the introduction of dense machinery and bulldozers to assistance with the search.

Late connected Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said it had transferred the bodies of 3 radical to Israel aft they were handed implicit by Hamas.

But Israel assessed that the remains did not beryllium to immoderate of the remaining 11 deceased Israeli captives, according to Israeli media reports.