The director of Al-Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza called to ramp up the entry of humanitarian aid as starvation spreads across the Strip.
“Gaza needs at least 1,500 aid trucks every single day for a month — just to begin healing from the wounds left by the weapon of starvation,” Dr. Fadel Naim said Thursday.
On Wednesday, around 70 trucks were unloaded at aid crossings, and over 150 were collected by the UN and international organizations from the Gazan side of the border, according to COGAT, the Israeli agency that manages the flow of aid into Gaza.
Before the war began on October 7, 2023, an average of 500 to 600 trucks entered Gaza each day, according to the United Nations.
Naim’s statement comes amid ongoing warnings from aid agencies about severe shortages of food and widespread hunger in the territory.
The UN says more than a thousand people have been killed by Israeli forces while seeking food since late May, when a controversial Israel and US-backed aid group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), began operating.
Of those, hundreds have died near GHF sites, according to the UN. The GHF was created to replace the UN’s long-established role distributing aid in Gaza and has been widely criticized for failing to provide adequate and safe access to desperately needed supplies.
On Tuesday, Gaza’s health ministry said 900,000 children are going hungry, and 70,000 already show signs of malnutrition.
