As a fresh convoy of fourteen trucks reached the beleaguered and bombed Palestinian enclave on Sunday, the United States pledged to keep providing aid to the Gaza Strip.
The White House announced that Israel had agreed “there will now be continued flow of this critical assistance” after the first of two humanitarian relief convoys entered Gaza.
About half of Gaza’s 2.4 million inhabitants are thought to have been forced from their homes by Israel’s bombing campaign, and the UN estimates that the region needs 100 trucks per day to meet their requirements.
The most recent shipment of food, water, and medical supplies, according to UN Relief Chief Martin Griffiths, is “another small glimmer of hope for the millions of people in dire need of humanitarian aid.” However, they require far more.”
According to an agreement mediated by US President Joe Biden with Egyptian and Israeli leaders, the much-delayed relief started to arrive on Saturday.
The death toll on the ground is still rising.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-controlled officials, fresh Israeli assaults on the embattled Palestinian enclave had resulted in at least 80 deaths and the destruction of thirty homes.
A correspondent from AFP witnessed numerous children’s bodies lying on the bloodstained floor of a hospital morgue in Gaza.
As grieving families arrived to identify the deceased and give their loved ones a final hug, they broke down in tears.
“He was a man with no record, nothing to do with the resistance,” said Wael Wafi, gazing at the body of his cousin.
Hamas militants stormed into Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, and killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians who were shot, mutilated or burnt to death on the first day of the raid, according to Israeli officials.
Israel says around 1,500 Hamas fighters were killed in clashes before its army regained control of the area under attack.
They also seized more than 200 hostages in the worst-ever attack in Israel’s history.
The most recent death toll from the Hamas health ministry in Gaza indicates that over 4,651 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have perished throughout the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli military’s ceaseless bombardment in reprisal for the attacks by the Palestinian Islamist militant group.
