Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym, MSF, said it has been trying to import 4,000 hygiene kits into the Gaza Strip for the past three months but shipments are being blocked by Israel, Al Jazeera reports.

The kits contain basic everyday items such as soap, toothbrushes, shampoo and laundry powder, it said in a statement.

But “for three months, importation of these kits has been blocked by the Israeli authorities”.