Israel 'pause' in Gaza had no impact on aid supplies: WHO
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00:00In the northern refugee camp of Jabalia, food shortages are ever more acute.
00:07We go from one famine to another, before we didn't have any flour, and now this famine
00:12is even worse than the last one.
00:18There's no fruit, no vegetables, nothing. All the UN and other NGOs are offering us
00:22is canned food. That's what people have been eating here for eight months now.
00:28At the start of the war, aid entered the Strip through the southern crossing of Rafah.
00:33But since the city became the focus of Israel's ground offensive, the border crossing with
00:37Egypt has been closed, and aid organisations are scrambling to send convoys through the
00:42other available crossings, such as the northern Erez crossing, through which some fuel supplies
00:48have entered, and southern Kerem Shalom, an aid route compromised by fighting in nearby
00:53Rafah.
00:54Amid outcry from NGOs, Israel announced on Sunday a plan to implement daily technical
01:00pauses along one arterial road in the Rafah region, so that convoys could travel from
01:05Kerem Shalom to Khan Yunis.
01:08But the United Nations say the measure is yet to yield results.
01:11Overall, we, the UN, can say that we did not see an impact on the humanitarian supplies
01:17coming in since that, I will say, unilateral announcement of this technical pause.
01:24UN officials said that out of 60 lorries sent along the route on Tuesday, 35 were intercepted
01:29by armed men looking for smuggled goods.
01:32As local police forces have become targets of the Israeli offensive, many now refuse
01:37to serve, and humanitarian convoys are not protected as they once were.
01:42Meanwhile, the American Humanitarian Peer Project has been damaged by bad weather and
01:47has failed to make up for the shortfall.
01:50This is one and a half million Gazans have been displaced by the war, three quarters
01:54of whom live in food insecurity.