Necessary volume of humanitarian aid not getting into Gaza, says WFP

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The United Nations food agency has said that it is not getting the necessary volumes of humanitarian assistance into Gaza despite Israel issuing new measures to enable more supplies to enter the enclave, Reuters reports.

“We have not gotten the authorisation, the permission to move in the volumes that we’ve requested,” Ross Smith, a senior regional programme adviser at the World Food Programme’s Regional Bureau for East & Central Africa, said at a UN briefing in Geneva via video link.

A truck carrying humanitarian aid, supplied by UAE AID, waiting to be allowed to cross from the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on July 28. — AFP
A truck carrying humanitarian aid, supplied by UAE AID, waiting to be allowed to cross from the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on July 28. — AFP

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