<\/p>\n
16 May 2025<\/p>\n
As we demonstrated during the ceasefire this year \u2013 and every time we\u2019ve been granted access \u2013 the United Nations and our humanitarian partners have the expertise, resolve and moral clarity to deliver aid at the scale necessary to save lives across Gaza.<\/p>\n
To those proposing an alternative modality for aid distribution, let’s not waste time: We already have a plan. This document<\/a><\/em><\/strong> sets it out again. It is rooted in the non-negotiable principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence. It is backed by a coalition of donors and the vast majority of the international community. It is ready to be activated \u2013 today \u2013 if we are simply allowed to do our jobs.<\/p>\n We have the people. We have the distribution networks. We have the trust of the communities on the ground. And we have the aid itself \u2013 160,000 pallets of it \u2013 ready to move. Now.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve done this before. We can do it again. We know how to get our aid supplies registered, scanned, inspected, loaded, offloaded, inspected again, loaded again, transported, stored, protected from looting, tracked, trucked, monitored and delivered \u2013 without diversion, without delay, and with dignity. We know how to reach civilians in desperate need and stave off famine.<\/p>\n Enough. We demand rapid, safe, and unimpeded aid delivery for civilians in need.<\/p>\n Let us work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 16 May 2025 Statement by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on resuming aid delivery to Gaza As we demonstrated during the ceasefire this year \u2013 and every time we\u2019ve been granted access \u2013 the United Nations and our humanitarian partners have the expertise, resolve and moral clarity to deliver […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,1769,1945,2005],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-307531","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-gaza-strip","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307539,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307531\/revisions\/307539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=307531"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=307531"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=307531"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=307531"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=307531"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=307531"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=307531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}