Posted on 01/21/25
| News Source: JPost
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said nearly 900 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third day of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas terrorists.
OCHA cited information received from Israeli authorities and the guarantors for the ceasefire agreement - the United States, Egypt, and Qatar.
“Up to now - these two first days of entry - there [have] been no reports of looting or attacks against aid workers,” OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke said.
According to a UN report, certain periods of the war saw “as little as 50 trucks per day” entering Gaza.
“At long last, aid at scale is entering,” Laerke said, “At long last, more hostages were released and can be reunited with their families and at long last, women and minors were freed from detention. It’s a tremendous hope, fragile but vital; this deal must hold.”
UN spokesperson Farhan Haq stated that many Gazans have already begun to return home since the ceasefire began, and Muhannad Hadi, the top UN aid official for Gaza and the West Bank described it as one of the most hopeful moments in his 35-year humanitarian career.
“It made me very happy to see that people already started moving back to their places of origin,” he said.
Hadi said there had been minor incidents of looting in the past three days, but "not like before."
"It's not organized crime. Kids jumped on some trucks trying to take food baskets. There were some other people [who] tried to take some bottled water," he stated.
"Hopefully within a few days this will all disappear once the people of Gaza realize that we will have aid enough for everybody."