DELAYS and obstructions by the Israeli military have meant only 12 trucks have delivered aid to northern Gaza since October, Oxfam warned today.
Israel has continually prevented humanitarian agencies from delivering much-needed aid to the region since it escalated its siege of northern Gaza on October 6, the charity said.
The UN has warned that famine is imminent and estimates that up to 75,000 Gazans remain trapped without access to food, water or power.
According to Oxfam, 34 trucks were permitted to enter the area but most of them were blocked from delivering the aid.
Three of the 12 that did manage to make it through delivered aid to Mahdia al-Shawa school, where displaced families were sheltering.
But within hours of the aid being distributed, soldiers and remote-controlled quadcopters fired on the school, which was then shelled the next day by the Israeli military.
Staff at the charity said that humanitarian access everywhere in Gaza is at an “all-time low” and that all crossings are barely functional.
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