'Israel' continues to deny aid into Gaza for a week
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"Israel" has been obstructing aid from entering Gaza through Rafah for a week now as the war on the besieged strip continues.
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Israeli settlers rejoice as they stop trucks carrying humanitarian aid destined for Gaza on 1 February 2024 (AFP)
The Palestinian Red Crescent has reported that aid has continued to be obstructed by Israeli occupation forces for a week, detailing that the IOF is obstructing the inspection of trucks at the Al-Awja crossing.
"Israel" has been obstructing aid from entering Gaza through Rafah for a week now as the war on the besieged strip continues.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced today that the number of martyred Palestinians has risen to 28,576, with 68,291 wounded since October 7.
In the past 24 hours, the Israeli occupation forces committed 11 massacres against families in Gaza martyring 103 Palestinians and injuring 145 others.
Israeli settlers have also protested and closed roads in front of humanitarian trucks entering Gaza.
المستوطنون يستمرون بإغلاق الطرق أمام شاحنات المساعدات الإنسانية المتجهة إلى قطاع غزة #غزة #فلسطين #الميادين_Go pic.twitter.com/Yzliu1Ijn7
— Almayadeen Go الميادين (@almayadeengo) February 14, 2024
The UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA (UNRWA) on Saturday reported that "Israel" blocked a food shipment meant for 1.1 million people in Gaza.
Israeli Finance Minister and the leader of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich is preventing a shipment of US-funded flour to Gaza, under the pretext that the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is the recipient, Axios reported, citing two Israeli and US officials.
More than a month ago, top officials in the Biden administration discussed the potential shipment of flour. The Israeli war and security cabinets granted approval for the delivery to proceed from the port of "Ashdod" in southern "Israel" to Gaza through the "Kerem Shalom" crossing.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich obstructed the transfer, instructing the Israeli customs service not to release the shipment as long as UNRWA was the recipient.
This comes amid an Israeli campaign to stigmatize the agency's credibility after "Israel" accused 12 of its members of being affiliated with the October 7 operation conducted by the Palestinian Resistance. As a result, the UK, the US, and 14 other countries have opted to defund the organization, primarily led by the United States, prior to any investigation and without any proof provided despite the unbearable civilian toll and dire humanitarian crisis due to the current Israeli genocide.
"A food shipment for 1.1 million people is stuck at an Israeli port due to recent restrictions from Israeli authorities. 1,049 containers of rice, flour, chickpeas, sugar & cooking oil are stuck as families in Gaza face hunger and starvation," the organization wrote in a post on social media.
The Red Crescent reported strikes on Al-Amal Hospital, in the city of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, noting that it caused significant material damage and reiterated warnings that any military attack on Rafah would be tantamount to a massacre.
لا تعتادوا المشهد.. غزة تباد#غزة #فلسطين#رفح_تحت_القصف #الميادين_Go pic.twitter.com/Qlo0H6zpsA
— Almayadeen Go الميادين (@almayadeengo) February 14, 2024
Two women, an infant, and a young man were martyred as a result of the IOF bombing a car north of Gaza City.
The death toll in a house bombing in the Nuseirat camp in the central part of the Strip has risen to 6 martyrs.
According to Al Mayadeen's correspondent, intense explosions were reported in the western areas of Rafah city, situated in the southern region of the Gaza Strip. Tragically, a child was killed and at least four other civilians were injured due to Israeli airstrikes targeting the Brazil neighborhood in Rafah.
On a related note, Palestinian media outlets have reported a total power outage at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, located in the southern Gaza Strip
Gaza hospitals 'completely overwhelmed': WHO
The World Health Organization bemoaned on Wednesday that Israel has allowed fewer than half of its requested aid-delivery missions in Gaza, emphasizing the need to reach and resupply wrecked hospitals throughout the enclave.
Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO's representative for Palestine expressed the hospitals were "completely overwhelmed and overflowing and undersupplied."
In a video call from Rafah, he explained to reporters how patients were routinely subjected to needless limb amputations that may have been prevented under normal conditions.
He condemned the "shrinking humanitarian space" in the Gaza Strip and accused "Israel" of impeding assistance delivery, revealing that barely 40% of the operations required by WHO to transport aid to northern Gaza have been completed, he claimed.
In southern Gaza, only 45% of missions have been completed, calling it "absurd" that such missions have been "denied, impeded or postponed."
