Concerns over arrangements for safely distributing aidpublished at 12:24 Greenwich Mean Time
Joel Gunter
Reporting from Jerusalem
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid began entering Gaza on Sunday just 15 minutes after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began, UN aid official Jonathan Whittall says in a post on X.
“A massive effort has been under way over the past days from humanitarian partners to load and prepare to distribute a surge of aid across all of Gaza,” he writes.
A vast amount of aid is required to stem the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The civilian population is lacking many basic needs, Juliette Touma, from the UN refugee agency UNRWA, adds.
“I would not call these living conditions, they are not conditions fit for human beings,” she says.
Aid agencies are hoping as quickly as possible to have hundreds of trucks entering the strip daily, though there are concerns over arrangements for safely distributing the aid.
During the first phase of the deal, it is Hamas that remains responsible for administrative matters – including policing.
