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23 May 2025
UN teams have collected more than 90 truckloads of aid inside Gaza. This happened three days after Israel eased a blockade that lasted 11 weeks.
The aid included flour, baby food, and medical tools. It came through the Kerem Shalom crossing on Wednesday night. The supplies were moved to warehouses for later use. On Thursday, some bakeries used the flour to start baking bread again.
The UN said there were delays because the only route allowed by Israel was not safe.
Israel said it let 100 trucks through on Wednesday. But the UN said this was far too little. Before the war, about 500 trucks entered Gaza each day.
Aid groups warned that hunger is getting worse for the 2.1 million people living in Gaza. Basic foods are hard to find, and prices are very high.
Palestinian Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan said 29 children and elderly people have died from hunger in the last few days.
A UN report said 500,000 people may face starvation soon.
The UN World Food Programme said it has 140,000 tons of food ready to send. That’s about 6,000 trucks’ worth, enough to feed everyone in Gaza for two months.
Israel stopped all aid and trade to Gaza on March 2. It resumed its military attacks two weeks later. The goal was to pressure Hamas to release 58 hostages. Up to 23 of them may still be alive.
Israel said Hamas steals aid and gives it to fighters or sells it. Hamas and the UN both denied this.
On Thursday, Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu repeated the claim. He said leaders of France, Canada, and the UK are wrong to believe Israel is starving children.
He said Israel and the US will start their own aid system using American companies. This system will not use the UN or other aid groups.
The UN said it will not help with this plan. It said the idea goes against basic rules of helping people in need.
The Red Cross said it brought in one truck of medical supplies for a field hospital. But they need a lot more.
"A few trucks are not enough," the Red Cross said. "We need safe and steady aid to help people."
A nurse from the UK charity UK-Med said the lack of food is heartbreaking. She said many patients are thinner than before. They only get one meal a day—just rice with some beans.
People keep moving to escape danger. Parents can't feed their kids. No one knows what will happen next.
A UN aid leader, Antoine Renard, said aid trucks must take a dangerous road. Hungry people or gangs might attack them. Each truck of flour is now worth about $400,000 on the market in Gaza.
He said 100 trucks a day is the bare minimum to feed people. But many more are needed.
Israeli attacks are still happening. Gaza’s health ministry said 107 people died in the last 24 hours.
On Thursday alone, 52 people died. One airstrike hit a house and killed 16 people from one family in Jabalia.
Israel gave new evacuation orders in the north. It warned that its army would fight hard in those areas.
The UN says 81% of Gaza is now unsafe or under evacuation orders.
Since March, almost 600,000 people have had to move again. About 161,000 of them fled in just the past week.
The war started after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. They killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
Since then, Gaza’s health ministry says at least 53,762 people have died, including 16,500 children.
