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Israel announced last Sunday that it would arouse military activity in certain regions to allow more assistance to Gaza after international indignation in the face of famine and generalized malnutrition deaths caused by offensive and help of the Israeli army.
But humanitarian organizations say that the amount of help that has entered the enclave is not enough, and without more food, an increasing number of Palestinians will die from hunger.
NBC News examines how much aid has entered Gaza during the week since Israel announced the new system and how it accumulates the needs of the population.
A Help Condition
Humanitarian aid is currently between Gaza in three ways: Airdrops, distribution by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation supported by the United States and Israel, and by the United Nations and other aid organizations using the newly trained “humanitarian corridors” that the Israeli soldiers set up last week.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which began to distribute aid in the enclave at the end of May, was widely condemned for the hundreds of people killed, often by Israeli soldiers, near its aid sites and for its limited distribution.
Last Sunday, GHF distributed about 1 million meals and at least 1.2 million Monday to Wednesday and 1.3 million Thursday. GHF did not seem to publish the number of meals distributed on Friday, but on Saturday said that it had published at least 1.7 million meals.
In a population of approximately 2 million people, this reaches an average of about half a little less than a full meal per person per day.
COGAT, the Israeli military branch responsible for supervising aid to Gaza, granted an average of just under 230 trucks to Gaza every day from Sunday to Thursday, according to the data he published online. He says that these trucks are added to “hundreds” already in the collection awaiting enclave from aid groups, but have not shared the exact number. Cogat did not respond to a request for more information on the total number of trucks awaiting collection.
At least 920 aid trucks allowed to enter the enclave had been collected and distributed by the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations From Sunday to Thursday, according to Cogat data.
Before the start of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, around 500 trucks carrying aid in Gaza daily, according to the British Red Cross and other organizations.
The graph below shows how the quantity of aid entering Gaza has skyrocketed during the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, before stopping during the blockade of Israel, with only a net in the months which followed its lifting.
Asked the number of trucks authorized in Gaza and collected by humanitarian groups on Friday and Saturday, Cogat did not immediately respond.
Although Cogat has shared information on trucks entering Gaza and collected by help groups on its social media pages during last week, it has not updated its online dashboard on Gaza aid since Monday, despite the international accent on the issue.
According to the World Food Program, only about two -thirds of the quantity of food that the United Nations asked that the Israeli authorities authorized in Gaza have been approved on Thursday since the Israeli army began tactical breaks.
How Israeli restrictions caused the hunger crisis
The hunger crisis in Gaza has worsened considerably in March after Israel imposed a blockade except the entrance to the aid to Gaza, in the middle of its ceasefire with Hamas.
Israel raised the blockade paralyzing in May, but for months authorized only a limited aid to enter the enclave, most of which were distributed by the group supported by the United States and Israel known as Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Cogat did not immediately respond to a request for comments from NBC News on the charge that the amount of assistance entering Gaza is not enough. He Previously accused of humanitarian groups, including the United Nations, of exacerbating hunger by not collecting and distributing aid to the Palestinians quite quickly.
However, humanitarian organizations said the efforts to distribute the limited aid they were able to enter Gaza were hampered by Israeli restrictions. They also pointed out that even after Israel promised to remove certain restrictions last Sunday, the amount of aid entering the enclave remains limited.
Meanwhile, WFP said that it needed faster approvals and clearances to move trucks inside Gaza safely, as well as for Israeli soldiers to join “established commitment rules”, in particular without armed presence or shooting near humanitarian convoys, food distributions and operations.
What is necessary?
“This is not an adequate response,” said Jeanette Bailey, the world official for the global rescue committee and research director for nutrition on Wednesday, on Wednesday.
A gradual entry of aid “here or there,” she said, “will not be enough to prevent us from entering a full-fledged famine where the number of deaths goes well.”
