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The worst-case scenario for northern Gaza is now a devastating reality … The US government must hold Israel accountable and take decisive action to ensure unrestricted aid delivery. Without this, preventable suffering and deaths will escalate and erode the United States’ moral and legal credibility,
Crosby said
The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is the result of systemic obstruction of aid, relentless bombardment, and an alarming failure to protect civilians,
said Katy Crosby, Mercy Corps senior director of US policy and advocacyIsrael not only failed to meet the U.S. criteria that would indicate support to the humanitarian response, but concurrently took actions that dramatically worsened the situation on the ground, particularly in Northern Gaza,
the group of eight organizations, including OXFAM, Save the Children and Norwegian Refugee Council, said in 19-page report
That situation is in an even more dire state today than a month ago,
they lamentedIsrael should be held accountable for the end result of failing to ensure the adequate provision of food, medical, and other supplies to reach people in need,
they urgedAnything that happens now is already too late,
she saidPeople are being starved in Gaza: Israeli military operations have denied them critical food aid and basic necessities, which has, in turn, caused conditions approaching famine for 800,000 Palestinian civilians across Gaza."
They saidWhat's coming in right now, according to the data Israel presented us with, is about a third of that amount,
the diplomat estimated
We can see signs that Israel increased the number of trucks that go into the Strip, but the amount of aid coming in is still too low,
one diplomat saidThat's enough time to cause us a real pain,
an Israeli official told Haaretz
Israel hasn’t come close to allowing the amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza that the Biden administration says is a requirement for ongoing U.S. military aid,
Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, said Monday
The Netanyahu government is thumbing its nose at the Biden administration,
Roth said, calling it "a predictable result ofWhat is being allowed into Gaza is not enough,
he wrote in a post on X on FridayNow that Trump has won, Netanyahu can just wait out any cutoff of (military) aid, counting on Trump to restore in it a couple of months,
he saidBefore the organizations give out grades, they should focus on distributing the aid that awaits them,
COGAT said in response to the aid groups’ report
The operation... includes the delivery of food, water, medical supplies, and shelter equipment to central and southern Gaza,
they said, adding it involved the military, COGAT and defence ministry
As part of the effort and commitment to increase the volume and routes of aid to the Gaza Strip, the ‘Kissufim’ Crossing was opened today,
the army said in a joint statement with COGAT, the Israeli defence ministry agency responsible for civilian affairs in the Palestinian territoriesChildren are dying. People are dying every day,
she said, stressingIt's undeniable that Israel has done that,
Blaha said
Immediate action, within days not weeks, is required from all actors who are directly taking part in the conflict, or have influence on its conduct, to avert and alleviate this catastrophic situation,
the independent Famine Review Committee said