There is a shortage of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip. This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov. in the air TV channel “Russia 24”.
According to him, in calm times there was much more humanitarian aid in Gaza; Before the conflict escalated, up to 500 trucks were arriving there a day. And now the situation has become catastrophic, he stated.
“This aid helps a little, but it is absolutely insufficient, so we need to cease fire and deal seriously and comprehensively with the humanitarian problem,” Viktorov said.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. As part of the Israeli army’s ground operation on 5 November surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Formerly head of Gaza hospitals statedThat the IDF attacked patients at Al-Shifa Hospital.