“It’s difficult to make up for nearly 15 months of shortage in a few days,” laments the president of Médecins du monde

From the first hours of the truce on Sunday, humanitarian aid flowed into the Palestinian territories, but the needs are immense, explains Jean-François Corty, president of Médecins du monde.

According to the president of Médecins du monde, guest of franceinfo Monday January 20, nearly 500 trucks entered Gaza in recent hours, after the ceasefire with Israel came into force. They bring “water, food and also gasoline to run the generators”. But despite everything, we will have to increase “the number of passages if we want to be in line with the needs”.

Delivering aid represents a “enormous logistical challenge”, observes the president of Médecins du monde. “Many roads are destroyed, he explains, we also need to find storage locations and the foodstuffs contained in certain trucks, which have been waiting for several months.”are already expired, due to not having been sent on time.

The other emergency, identified by Jean-François Corty, is the 110,000 injured who deserve to be transferred to “care systems more effective than those destroyed in Gaza”. For the moment, NGOs have little information on the possibility of getting these injured people out.

The president of Doctors of the World counts nearly 300 humanitarian workers and hundreds of caregivers killed, hundreds of health centers unusable: “Practically around twenty hospitals out of 36 were destroyed”. Faced with this observation, Jean-François Corty insists: “There is an urgency to bring in equipment, to bring in something to also secure the perimeter.”

He also calls for justice bodies such as the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court to be able to “do their job”. An important point according to him, for the mourning and care of the population: “We will have to judge all those responsible for the killings on both sides of the front line.”