Al Mayadeen English

  • Ar
  • Es
  • x
Al Mayadeen English

Slogan

  • News
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Sports
    • Arts&Culture
    • Health
    • Miscellaneous
    • Technology
    • Environment
  • Articles
    • Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Blog
    • Features
  • Videos
    • NewsFeed
    • Video Features
    • Explainers
    • TV
    • Digital Series
  • Infographs
  • In Pictures
  • • LIVE
News
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Sports
  • Arts&Culture
  • Health
  • Miscellaneous
  • Technology
  • Environment
Articles
  • Opinion
  • Analysis
  • Blog
  • Features
Videos
  • NewsFeed
  • Video Features
  • Explainers
  • TV
  • Digital Series
Infographs
In Pictures
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Europe
  • Latin America
  • MENA
  • Palestine
  • US & Canada
BREAKING
IOF issues evacuation order for neighborhoods in Hodeidah, Yemen.
Rubio: 'Very short window', maybe days, for Hamas to accept deal
Al Mayadeen correspondent to southern Lebanon: Israeli warplanes launched a raid on the Ksar Zaatar neighborhood in western Nabatieh.
Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza: The tower destroyed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza includes media offices, including Al Mayadeen's bureau.
Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza: Four fetuses and three premature babies died at Nasser Medical Complex due to malnutrition
Lebanese Ministry of Health: One person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in the town of Burj Qalawieh, south Lebanon.
Al Mayadeen correspondent: The first ship of the Maghreb fleet delivering aid to break the siege on Gaza departs from the port of Gammarth in Tunisia.
Channel 12: Airspace closed at Ramon Airport due to fears of drone infiltration
IOF Spokesperson: Sirens sounded over an aircraft infiltration in the Bir Ora area, and details are being examined
Drone infiltration sirens sound north of the Gulf of Aqaba

UN runs out of tents, food in southern Gaza due to Israeli blockade

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: The Guardian
  • 16 May 2024 09:11
  • 1 Shares
3 Min Read

As the Israeli military attacks Rafah, the UN reports that its warehouses have run out of essentials, amid a renewed Nakba.

  • x
  • UN runs out of tents, food in southern Gaza, due to Israeli blockade
    Forcibly displaced Palestinians walk near tents that they set up for shelter along a beach of the Mediterranean Sea, in Deir al-Balah, the Gaza Strip, Palestine, on May 13, 2024. (AP)

The United Nations has run out of tents and food to distribute to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, UN officials told The Guardian on Wednesday. 

The announcement comes amid an ongoing Israeli ground invasion of Rafah and an aggression targeting Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. The military aggression on the southernmost Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip has also seen the closure of all crossings leading into the besieged territory, including the Rafah border crossing. This crossing, linking Palestine to Egypt, witnessed the entry of the bulk of humanitarian aid to Rafah.

UN officials reported that the agencies' warehouses, located south of the Netzarim Axis, which splits Gaza City and some towns from the rest of the Gaza Strip to the south, have been completely emptied and will not be resupplied if the Israeli occupation continues to block humanitarian routes. 

"There are no tents in humanitarian warehouses. There are also no stocks of food left with the World Food Programme or UNRWA [the UN agency for Palestinian refugees] south of the [river]," UN officials told The Guardian. 

The head of the Gaza sub-office of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Georgios Petropoulos, said that he expected food available on the market and what the organizations have distributed to be finished soon. The official warned that "time is running out," urging authorities to make available "a sustainable crossing open for predictable humanitarian supplies into southern Gaza."

Read more: WHO refutes Israeli claims of Gaza Health Ministry data inaccuracies

Related News

Rubio supports Gaza occupation, warns of tight window for deal

'Israel' bombs tower housing Al Mayadeen office in Gaza

1948 Nakba renewed

In the context of the renewed Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, Amnesty International said that the 1948 Palestinian Nakba was rewriting itself on its 76th anniversary, amid the forced displacement of the people of Gaza, who have had to flee their homes and locations several times since October due to the Israeli aggression targeting the entirety of the Gaza Strip. 

In Rafah alone, the UN reports that nearly 600,000 people have been forcibly displaced within the area, to the Gaza Strip's southern coast. The coast is ill-equipped and cannot host hundreds of thousands of refugees, especially at a time when the UN reports that it has run out of tents, which are used to build Palestinians makeshift shelters.

In a statement, Amnesty said that the forced displacement of almost two million Palestinians, alongside the Israeli destruction of Palestinian civilian property and infrastructure, highlights the occupation's "appalling" history of displacing the people of Palestine while simultaneously neglecting their right to return for 76 years. 

Nakba Day, which is commemorated on the 15th of May of every year, is a day in which Palestinians remember the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, when "Israel" ethnically cleansed at least 800,000 Palestinians from their homes and properties.

Amnesty drew parallels to the forced displacement of at least 150,000 Palestinians who fled Rafah in recent days due to its invasion by Israeli occupation forces (IOF). It also emphasized that most of those currently escaping Rafah have been displaced several times since October.

In 1967, Palestinians were also forced to flee Gaza and the occupied West Bank when "Israel" occupied their properties and displaced over 350,000 of them.

Read more: Day 222: 35,233 Palestinians killed, 79,141 injured in Gaza

  • Gaza Strip
  • Palestine
  • United Nations
  • Georgios Petropoulos
  • Rafah
  • OCHA
  • Gaza
War on Gaza

War on Gaza

Most Read

The damaged building in the Katara neighborhood, Doha, Qatar, September 9, 2025 (Social media)

Hamas delegation survives Israeli assassination attempt in Qatar

  • Politics
  • 9 Sep 2025
Pro-"Israel" conservative Charlie Kirk shot during Utah speech

American far-right activist Charlie Kirk shot dead during Utah speech

  • US & Canada
  • 11 Sep 2025
Uprising against Volker Turk at the Human Rights Council over Gaza.

Uprising against Volker Turk at the Human Rights Council over Gaza

  • Politics
  • 12 Sep 2025
A screengrab from the ad played on Fox News. (X Screengrab)

Fox airs ad warning Trump not to let Netanyahu 'play' him on Gaza

  • US & Canada
  • 11 Sep 2025

Coverage

All
The Ummah's Martyrs

Read Next

All
President Nicolas Maduro gestures to supporters during the inauguration of a monument in China's honor on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, September 3, 2025 (AP)
Politics

Maduro warns of threats, urges 'battle for truth' to defend Venezuela

Damage is seen after an Israeli strike targeted a compound that hosted Hamas' political leadership in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
Politics

Netanyahu informed Trump before deadly attack in Doha: Reports

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hold a joint press conference at the Prime Minister's Office, during Rubio's visit, in occupied al-Quds, occupied Palestine, Monday, September 15, 2025 (AP)
Politics

Netanyahu warns of Israeli isolation, calls to boost self-reliance

Spain axes €700Mln arms deals with 'Israel' over Gaza genocide
Politics

Spain axes €700 mln arms deals with 'Israel' over Gaza genocide

Al Mayadeen English

Al Mayadeen is an Arab Independent Media Satellite Channel.

All Rights Reserved

  • x
  • Privacy Policy
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Authors
Android
iOS