{"id":289804,"date":"2023-10-19T16:57:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=289804"},"modified":"2023-10-19T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:57:39","slug":"gaza-aid-ready-to-roll-in-once-final-deal-reached-un-news-item","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/gaza-aid-ready-to-roll-in-once-final-deal-reached-un-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Aid Ready to Roll in once Final Deal Reached – Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ News Item"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Humanitarians continued to stand ready on Thursday to deliver lifesaving aid to Gaza following reports of an agreement brokered by the United States for 20 aid trucks to enter the enclave from Egypt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some 3,000 tonnes of supplies have been awaiting entry on the Egyptian side of the crossing since Saturday. On Wednesday, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Security Council\u00a0failed to agree<\/a>\u00a0on a resolution that would have called for \u201chumanitarian pauses\u201d for aid delivery.<\/p>\n

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ chief expected in Cairo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\u00a0Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/a>\u00a0was expected to arrive in Cairo within the next few hours, to pursue his diplomatic efforts, following his call for an \u201cimmediate humanitarian ceasefire\u201d in the wake of a strike on Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday, which killed 471 people according to Gaza\u2019s de facto authorities.<\/p>\n

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ humanitarian coordination office\u00a0OCHA<\/a>\u00a0said that this was the deadliest incident in Gaza since hostilities escalated and that children, health care staff and internally displaced people were among the victims.<\/p>\n

Lives on the line<\/strong><\/p>\n

Commenting on the news of a US-brokered deal, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ health agency\u00a0WHO<\/a>\u00a0chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed \u201cUSA\u2019s leadership and Israel\u2019s agreement to allow food, water and medical aid\u201d into the sealed off enclave through the Rafah border crossing, stressing on social media platform X that \u201cmany lives depend on this happening\u201d.<\/p>\n

Briefing the Security Council on Wednesday, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ relief chief Martin Griffiths stressed the need for humanitarian actors to be able to \u201cdeliver relief to civilians in need throughout Gaza, without impediment, in places of their choice, in places where they consider themselves to be safe and where we can seek to ensure that safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

He told ambassadors that around 100 trucks of humanitarian supplies per day were needed to meet the needs of the more than two million residents of the besieged enclave.<\/p>\n

According to news reports, equipment has been sent to repair potholes at the crucial Rafah crossing to allow the initial aid convoy in. More than 100 trucks are waiting for the final green light on the Egyptian side.<\/p>\n

Israel has said it would allow limited aid into the enclave provided none of it benefits Hamas, which controls Gaza.<\/p>\n

Disastrous situation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gaza\u2019s population has been facing an increasingly disastrous situation, with a full electricity blackout since 11 October, rising food insecurity and a health system on the brink of collapse.<\/p>\n

According to OCHA, the average water consumption for all needs, including drinking, cooking and hygiene is estimated at only three litres per day per person in Gaza. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ office also warned that people consume water from unsafe sources \u201crisking death and placing the population at risk of infectious disease outbreaks\u201d.<\/p>\n

One in two displaced<\/strong><\/p>\n

OCHA reported that about one million people, or close to half of Gaza\u2019s entire population, have been displaced since the start of the conflict.<\/p>\n

Over 500,000 are staying in emergency shelters designated as such by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ agency for Palestine refugees, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA, while Israeli bombardments of the enclave continue.<\/p>\n

More to come on this developing story\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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