United Nations aid operations in the Gaza Strip continued a day after a senior UN official said humanitarian efforts had ground to a halt because new Israeli evacuation orders forced the shutdown of the main UN operations centre, Reuters reports.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric appeared to temper the remarks by the UN official, who spoke on Monday on condition of anonymity.

When asked if conditions in Gaza had caused a halt to UN aid deliveries on Monday, Dujarric told reporters: “The conditions in Gaza yesterday made it extremely, extremely difficult for us to do our work.

“We are doing what we can with what we have,” he said. “We’ve been saying from the beginning - this is aid delivery by seizing every opportunity, seizing every crack that we can fill. So every situation is assessed day by day, hour by hour.”

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