Aid trucks alone won’t end suffering of civilians: UNRWA director

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Thomas White, director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza, says “nothing has changed” in the besieged enclave since the UN Security Council passed a resolution Friday evening to boost aid, Al Jazeera reports.

“People continue to be be pushed around Gaza into an increasingly smaller space; aid trucks alone are not going to solve that problem. We have Rafah right now — a city that normally has 280,000 people — hosting a million people,” White said.

He reiterated the need for a ceasefire to end the suffering of civilians, hundreds of thousands of whom are living in the open, as “air strikes continue to hit all parts of Gaza”.

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