Gaza Media Office: Land crossings are the best way to deliver aid

Occupied Al-Quds, ST) – The Gaza Media Office affirmed that the efforts of the international community to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip are weak in the face of the humanitarian catastrophe. It stressed the need to pressure the occupation to bring aid in by land.

Palestinian media quoted the head of the office, Salama Maarouf, as saying in statements today: In the light of the talk about the departure of a ship loaded with aid from the Cypriot port of Larnaca heading to Gaza, we confirm until this moment that the relief efforts for our people are weak, and that they remain below the minimum required in the face of the humanitarian catastrophe, especially northern Gaza, where more than 700,000 people are suffering from a clear war of starvation.

Marouf added: “According to what was announced, the ship’s load does not exceed the load of one or two trucks, and it will take days, and we do not know where it will dock and how it will reach Gaza coast. In addition,  it will be subjected to inspection by the occupation army, and it is better for everyone to pressure it to bring in convoys. Aid is delivered by land and through known crossings, such as Rafah and Karam Abu Salem, or activating the Al-Mintar, Al-Shujaiya, and Beit Hanoun crossings”.

Marouf called on the international community to act urgently before it is too late to save those who are dying of hunger. He pointed out that the best way to do this is to activate the work of the land crossings in a way that allows the entry of thousands of aid and relief trucks that are gathering in front of the Rafah crossing, and the occupation refuses to bring them in, disregarding the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and the International Court of Justice rulings.

Raghda Sawas