The US writes to Israel’s government giving it 30 days to urgently boost humanitarian aid access in Gaza or face having some US military assistance cut off.
The letter, which calls on Israel to end the “isolation of northern Gaza”, is the strongest known written warning from the Biden administration to its ally.
The situation in northern Gaza is “desperate”, the UN says, as it delivers the first food aid allowed into the area in more than two weeks
About 400,000 Palestinians remain in northern Gaza, according to the UN, which condemned the “large number of civilian casualties” in recent days.
Israel says it is rooting out Hamas fighters who have regrouped in the north, in an offensive which has forced closure of water wells, bakeries, medical points and shelters, according to the UN
Meanwhile, report has it that not enough aid is getting to Gaza.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been telling us about the state of aid distribution on the ground in Gaza.
Not enough aid is getting in, the agency’s Matthew Hollingworth tells the BBC.
“We have not had the access and space to do our work,” he says.
“Nothing is going in to north of Gaza. We just had a breakthrough of 12 truckloads go in – but it’s not enough. We need deliveries every single day,” he says.
