Gaza Media Office: Targeting aid workers attempt to disrupt aid flow
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Gaza's Government Media Office condemned the IOF for the "full-fledged crimes" of the IOF and their intention to disrupt the flow of humanitarian aid.
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Palestinians carry dead children killed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza on May 21, 2025. (AP)
The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip condemned "in the strongest terms" the crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) against aid security personnel and volunteer committees in the Deir al-Balah area in central Gaza, which resulted in the martyrdom of six members of the aid security and protection teams.
In a statement, the office described the targeting of these individuals as a "full-fledged crime" that reveals the IOF's true intentions to disrupt the flow of humanitarian and medical aid and to create a state of chaos and anarchy, serving the IOF's plan to engineer starvation and death against the Palestinians in Gaza.
The statement added that it has become clear that the IOF are systematically working to enable the looting of humanitarian aid and medicine trucks and to ensure they do not reach those who need them, by targeting those who organize and ensure their safe passage.
In its statement, the Media Office called on the international community, United Nations agencies, and humanitarian and human rights organizations to "intervene urgently and immediately to stop these organized crimes perpetrated by the Israeli occupation, provide full protection for aid and those working to secure it, and ensure its safe and regular entry into the affected areas, away from the occupation's violations and aggressive policies."
أكثر من مليوني فلسطيني يقفون على شفا المجاعة في قطاع غزة.
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In a statement issued on Monday, the media office clarified that these nine trucks, which carried only limited nutritional supplements for children, represent a fraction of the 44,000 aid trucks that should have entered Gaza over the past 80 days, reiterating that the besieged enclave requires at least 500 aid trucks and 50 fuel trucks daily to meet its urgent humanitarian needs.
'Nothing more than a drop in the ocean'
While a total of 44,000 trucks should have entered Gaza over 80 days, the few allowed in on Monday amount to less than 0.02% of that number, prompting the media office to emphasize that these trucks "are nothing more than a drop in the ocean of urgent needs and fail to meet even the bare minimum requirements for survival" in the besieged enclave.
The media office further noted in its statement that Israeli authorities have completely shut down all crossings, "blocking even a single grain of wheat from entering for nearly three months, a deliberate starvation policy targeting 2.4 million people."
