Huge Quantities of Aid Wasted

For months now, the international community has accused Israel of limiting, and even blocking, the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip.

In mid-November, the BBC reported a United Nations (UN) claim that Israel had failed to meet a deadline set by the United States to boost the flow of aid to a level perceived to be necessary.

Later that month, the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that only one third of 129 planned aid missions were able to go ahead:

"Israeli forces prevented two-thirds of the 129 different humanitarian aid operations
from reaching the Gaza Strip last week.”

And today, UNICEF have highlighted an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification forecast that ‘conditions are ripe for its worst-case-scenario predictions: famine spreading to the entire Gaza Strip and its two million people between November 2024 and April 2025.’

However, much evidence is emerging that thousands of tons of aid is being wasted in the Gaza Strip because of problems distributing it, rather than it being blocked by the Israelis.

Ten days ago a CBS reporter gained access to the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing and his report revealed many pallets of aid stacked up awaiting delivery.

Just four days ago, Keshet News also gained access and were shown that not only were 800 trucks queued up waiting for aid agencies to be able to deliver their loads, but that many tons of aid have been stuck awaiting delivery for months. Some of it has been there so long it is going to be destroyed.

This video report is in the Hebrew language with English subtitles.