A child carries a bowl of rice while people collect food aid in the Bureij refugee camp in the center of Gaza strip, on November 6, 2024 Photo: Eyad Baba / AFP / Profimedia
Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid in Gaza from Friday, a military official said, quoted by the Radio of the Israeli army, reports Reuters and Sky News.
A high-ranking official of the IDF (Israeli army) confirmed on Friday for Sky News that “starting today, Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute Gaza. Starting this afternoon, the World Central Kitchen organization has begun to reactivate its aids,” according to News.ro.
The World Central Kitchen humanitarian aid organization interrupted its activity in Gaza in November, after several of its workers were killed in an Israeli air attack.
The Ministry of Health of Gaza states that over 100 people have died of hunger in the Palestinian enclave since Israel interrupted the supply of the territory in March. Israel, who is in war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas from October 2023, raised the block in May, but imposed restrictions that he considers to prevent aid to the militant groups.
In the first two weeks of July, the UN Children's Agency UNICEF treated 5,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition in Gaza.
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Wednesday that Gaza suffers from mass hunger caused by man, caused by the blockade on humanitarian aid.
Last year, countries such as Jordan, the US and the United Kingdom, through the Royal Air Force, have launched aid in military planes, but humanitarian organizations have warned that they are not sufficient.
In March 2024, five people were killed when a parachute with aid gave up and a parcel fell over them.
Humanitarian workers in Gaza, who help provide food, medicines and shelter for millions of people from there, were affected by the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The Humanitarian Foundation for Gaza (GHF), an organization supported by Israel and the US, distributes food packages in Gaza from the end of May, after Israel partially raised the 11 -week block imposed on aids in the territory.
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