(May 20, 2025)

To give you a sense of how this complicated operation has to work, the Israeli authorities are requiring us to offload supplies on the Palestinian side of Kerem Shalom crossing and reload them separately once they secure our teams’ access from inside the Gaza Strip. Only then are we able to bring any supplies closer to where people in need are sheltering. Today, one of our team waited several hours for Israeli green light to access Kerem Shalom area and collect the nutrition supplies. Unfortunately, they were not able to bring those supplies into our warehouse. So, just to make it clear, while more https://press.un.org/en/2025/db250510.doc.htmsupplies have come into the Gaza Strip, we have not been able to secure the arrival of those supplies into our warehouses and delivery points.

“A few dozen” trucks carrying flour, medicines and nutrition supplies were allowed to pass through the Israeli fence into the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a briefing Tuesday. But aid workers, he said, were unable to get the aid to warehouses as Israeli officials forced them to wait several hours for access, and then unload and then reload the supplies onto separate trucks. They ran out of time before dark.