In northern Gaza, only around ten trucks have delivered food and water in two and a half months, according to Oxfam

The NGO denounces “deliberate delays and systematic obstructions on the part of the Israeli army”.

She sounds the alarm about the deterioration of the situation in the besieged Palestinian territory. According to the NGO Oxfam, only around ten humanitarian aid trucks have distributed water and food in northern Gaza in two and a half months, it said on Sunday December 23. “Of the scant 34 trucks carrying food and water allowed into the northern Gaza governorate over the past two and a half months, deliberate delays and systematic obstruction by the Israeli military have fact that only twelve managed to distribute aid to starving Palestinian civilians”says Oxfam, a count that includes deliveries until Saturday, December 21. “For three of them, once food and water had been distributed in the school where the population was taking refuge, it was then evacuated and bombed a few hours later”adds the NGO.

Oxfam and other international humanitarian organizations have been “continually prevented from providing life-saving assistance” in northern Gaza since October 6, when Israel intensified its bombings, the NGO further declares. “It is estimated that thousands of people are still isolated, but with humanitarian access blocked, it is impossible to count them with certainty”selon Oxfam. “At the beginning of December, humanitarian organizations working in Gaza received calls from vulnerable people, trapped in houses or shelters, and who had arrived short of water and food”she adds.

Israel has strictly controlled the arrival of international aid, essential for the 2.4 million Gazans, since the start of the war triggered by the deadly attack by the Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli territory on October 7, 2023. Israel has been accused repeatedly committing a “genocide” in Gaza, including before international justice at the initiative of South Africa. Accusations that the Israeli authorities forcefully reject. The UN General Assembly, for its part, approved on Thursday by a large majority a resolution asking the International Court of Justice to rule on Israel's humanitarian obligations towards the Palestinians.