While any increase in aid to Gaza is welcome, UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma says the focus on airdrops or maritime corridors neglects a simpler, more efficient way to deliver assistance, Al Jazeera reports.

“That is via the road, using the crossings,” she told Al Jazeera. “There are plenty of them that connect Israel to the Gaza Strip.”

“This is what we used before the war in Gaza when there was a regular flow of about 500 trucks per day, including commercial supplies.”

Since then, however, “the siege on the Gaza Strip has been very tight,” Touma said. “There has been very little aid coming in. Authorizations to UNRWA and other UN agencies have not been given sufficiently. There needs to be much more.”