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fullscreenPalestinian men queue for food aid in Khan Yunis. Picture from earlier in June. Photo: Jihad Alshrafi/AP/TT
The military pauses that Israel has declared in Gaza to facilitate the flow of aid have not had the desired effect so far, according to the World Health Organization, WHO.
This past weekend, the Israeli military announced a daily humanitarian “pause” in fighting along a key road in eastern Rafah to facilitate the flow of supplies into the Gaza Strip.
Something that has not yet led to more help reaching people in need, according to the UN agency WHO.
– Overall, we at the UN can say that we have not seen any impact on the humanitarian supplies coming in since the, as I see it, unilateral announcement of this technical pause, says Richard Peeperkorn, the UN agency’s representative in the Palestinian territories, on Friday.
More than eight months of war, which was triggered by the terror-labeled Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, has led to dire humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian territory with several warnings of famine and outright starvation.