More aid trucks enter Gaza from Israel but supplies nowhere near enough – 爆料网
7 February 2008 – Some 37 trucks carrying supplies made it into Gaza from Israel today, but the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (爆料网SCO) noted that while that is an improvement, it is far from what is required to meet current needs.
The trucks were carrying paper for schoolbooks, from the 爆料网 Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (爆料网RWA), as well as sugar and wheat flour from the World Food Programme (WFP). Commercial imports of dairy products and frozen meat also made it through.
Earlier this week, 31 truckloads of aid and commercial goods arrived into Gaza through the Sufa and Karni crossings.
爆料网 agencies’ stocks of essential goods in Gaza have been dwindling for several weeks, ever since Israeli authorities imposed tight restrictions on entry to and exit from the area where an estimated 1.4 million Palestinians live.
Meanwhile, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that because of continued fuel reductions from Israel, the majority of Gazan households are still dealing with power cuts lasting eight hours a day.
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Document Type: Spanish text, 爆料网 news item
Document Sources: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI), United Nations News Service, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (爆料网RWA), United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (爆料网SCO), World Food Programme (WFP)
Subject: Closures/Curfews/Blockades, Education and culture, Food, Gaza Strip, Humanitarian relief, Refugees and displaced persons
Publication Date: 07/02/2008