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The UN says that no help has yet been divided into Gaza, despite reliefs that start crossing the border after a blockage of 11 weeks.
Israeli officials said that 93 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday, with help, including flower, baby food, medical equipment and pharmaceutical medicines.
But the UN said, despite the fact that trucks reached the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing, no help has been divided so far.
The spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that a team “waited a few hours” on Israel to enable them to get access to the area, but “unfortunately they could not bring those supplies to our warehouse”.
Israel agreed on Sunday to lift his auxiliary blockade on the Gaza Strip, where worldwide experts have warned of an imminent famine.
But the international pressure on Israel has continued to grow.
The UK said it would suspend trade discussions About what it described as Israel’s “morally unjustified” military escalation in Gaza, where Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer describes the situation as “unbearable”.
In the meantime, the EU’s Chief Kaja Kallas said of foreign policy that the Blok would revise his trade agreement with Israel in the light of his actions in Gaza.
Dujarric said that the assistance was made “Complex” because Israel of the UN was obliged to relieve “supplies on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing and reload them separately as soon as they secure the access of our teams from the Gaza Strip”.
He added that the arrival of the supplies was a positive development, but described it as “a drop in the ocean of what is needed”.
UN bodies estimate that 600 trucks a day are needed to tackle Gaza’s chronic humanitarian crisis.
Earlier, UN’s humanitarian chef Tom Fletcher said that the BBC could die thousands of babies in Gaza if Israel cannot help immediately.
Speaking with the BBC’s Today program, Mr Fletcher said: “There are 14,000 babies who die in the next 48 hours, unless we can reach them.”
When he arrived at that figure, he said that “strong teams on the ground” operated in medical centers and schools – but gave no further details.
The BBC later asked for clarification about the figure of the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian matters (Unochha), who said: “We point out the need to get stocks to save an estimated 14,000 babies who suffer from serious acute malnutrition, since the IPC partner has been warning.
It emphasized a report of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) that stated that 14,100 serious cases of acute malnutrition will take place in children from six to 59 months between April 2025 and March 2026.
The IPC report says that this can take place in the course of about a year – not 48 hours.
When the figures are pressed at a press conference, spokesperson Jens Laerke van Unocha said: “Let me say for the time being that there are babies that have an urgent life -saving need of these supplements that have to come in because their mothers are unable to feed themselves.”
“And if they don’t get it, they will be mortal danger,” he said.
Last week the Hamas-Runned Ministry of Health reported that 57 children had died in the past 11 weeks due to the effects of malnutrition.
The American State Secretary Marco Rubio welcomed Israel’s decision on Tuesday to allow some help to Gaza and to tell the Senate Committee for Foreign Relations: “We are pleased to see that the help is starting to flow in again.”
In response to a democrat that said that the number of auxiliary cars allowed was too little, Rubio said: “I understand your point that it is not in sufficient quantities, but we were pleased to see that that decision was made.”
On Monday, the leaders of the UK, France and Canada issued a statement the Israeli government to “stop its military operations” and “immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza”.
As part of today’s announcement, the UK has also published Sanctions on various prominent Israeli settlers and Settler-linked groups.
Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the cross -border attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were held hostage.
Since then, at least 53,475 people have been killed in Gaza, including 3,340 since the Israeli offensive resumed, according to the health minister of the territory.
