Israel claims it has approved the opening of three humanitarian channels into Gaza to allow additional aid into the region.
The Erez Gate in northern Gaza will be briefly reopened for the first time since the beginning of the conflict.
The WCK convoy was assaulted by an Israeli air strike on Monday night as it traveled south along the Israeli-designated coastal support route, just after dumping over 100 tons of food from a barge at a warehouse in Deir al-Balah.
The US National Security Council praised Israel’s announcements, which it said: “must now be fully and rapidly implemented”. But Palestinians have been crushed when parachutes fail, and some have perished while attempting to swim to pallets that have fallen in the water.
A recent UN-backed investigation found evidence that Gaza’s humanitarian crisis was developing into a man-made famine.
Volker Türk, the UN’s most senior human rights officer, recently said that there was a “plausible” case of Israel using famine as a weapon of war in Gaza. A recent UN-backed investigation found evidence that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza was morphing into a man-made famine.
Over 196 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since October, according to the US-funded Aid Worker Security Database, which tracks severe instances of violence against aid workers. Not everybody was slain in the line of duty.
Much of the Gaza Strip has been damaged by Israeli military operations, which began when Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people and taking 253 hostages. Over 33,000 people have lost their lives in Gaza since that time, according to the Hamas-run healthcare ministry.
Arshad Hussain