Humanitarian crisis: After blockade: greater aid deliveries reach Gaza

After a month -long de facto blockade by Israel, larger aid deliveries have reached the Gaza Strip for the first time. On Sunday, a column of around 100 trucks with goods for the needy population over the Israeli border crossing Kerem Schalom drove into the large -scale coastal area, as sources confirmed there.

The goods – food, medication, baby food – are urgently needed. The World Health Organization WHO recently warned of a fatal hunger crisis among the approximately two million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. Photos from the sealed area, in which Israel wages war against Islamist Hamas, showed toddlers in the hospitals that were only skin and bones.

According to the Ministry of Health, which is controlled by the Islamist Hamas, more than 100 people have already died of malnutrition, 80 percent of them. Israel denies that there is a hungry disaster in the Gaza Strip and instead speaks of a “campaign” of Hamas.

Israel recently repeatedly accused the UN organizations of not wanting to distribute the help in the Gaza Strip. These in turn countered that Israel did not want to guarantee safe transport routes within the competitive area. In fact, since the end of March, when Israel ended a ceasefire at the time, there has been very little help with the people in the Gaza Strip.

U -turn for global criticism

The worldwide criticism of its procedure in the Palestinian area has now obviously prompted Israeli leadership to a U -turn. Surprisingly, the military announced on Sunday night to adhere to a self -declared humanitarian break in parts of the Gaza Strip, except for revocation every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time.

The break in the areas where the army does not operate: Al-Mawasi in the southwest of the sealed coastal strip, in Deir al-Balah in the center and in the city of Gaza in the north. Furthermore, corridors would be set up from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. to 11 p.m. to enable the confois of the UN and other aid organizations to be passed through.

A desalination system for the preparation of drinking water in the Gaza Strip has now been connected to the Israeli power grid again, the army said. The measures initiated aimed to “refute the wrong claim that the Gaza Strip is intentionally starved”.

The UN Nothilfekoordinator Tom Fletcher welcomed the announcement of the Israeli military. “With our teams on site we will do everything we can to achieve as many hungry people as possible in this time window,” he wrote on the X.

Pallets thrown out of the air

On the night of Sunday, the Israeli Air Force took a relief from the air over the Gaza Strip for the first time. The military said that seven pallets with relief goods such as flour, sugar and food cannonons, which had been provided by international organizations.

Last year, Jordan, Germany and other countries had dropped aid goods for a few weeks. However, helpers consider the method to be ineffective because of the relatively small quantities, for example in comparison to truck transports. In addition, people could be injured by the pallets on the ground.

Again dozens of deaths in attacks

Despite humanitarian fire break in parts of the Gaza Strip, Israel continued to attack there. At Deir al-Balah, tents with displaced persons are said to have been hit, as employees of the emergency services reported. According to the health authorities controlled by the Hamas, at least 53 Palestinians have died since dawn. The number of non -verifiable number does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

32 people alone are said to have been killed when waiting for humanitarian aid. Especially in the area of the distribution centers of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) supported by Israel and the USA, there are always fatal incidents.

Since the factual blockade was imposed, Israel has had the majority of the few goods that came in the Gaza Strip. There, the edition of the food packages – which is criticized by experts as improperly criticized – often came to chaotic scenes. Israeli soldiers who were supposed to secure the environment always shot into the amount of those seeking help. According to UN, around 900 people are said to have died in this way.

The trigger of the Gaza War was the attack by Hamas and other Islamist terrorist organizations to Israel on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were delayed as hostages into the Gaza strips. Since then, according to the Ministry of Health, 59,821 people have been killed by Sunday. Even this information cannot be checked independently and do not distinguish between civilians and fighters. However, they are considered largely reliable by UN organizations.

Weapons resting talks in the suspension

The indirect conversations about a 60-day ceasefire and the release of hostages from the violence of Hamas recently came into a dead end. However, the “real efforts” are now being “real efforts” to bring them back on the rails, the public law Kan-Radio quoted the Israeli government representative that were not mentioned by name on Sunday morning.

In the negotiations that have been running for months, often in the circle, deal with Qatar, Egypt and the USA. Israel and the United States recently ordered their delegations from the Qatarian capital to “consultations”. Both countries accused Hamas of undermining the basis of discussion through excessive claims. Hamas denied this.

The daily newspaper “Israel Hajom” quoted an Israeli government official on Sunday with the words that the conversations are “neither collapse nor burst”. When the negotiating table could be returned, however, remained unclear.

Merz comes to the agreement at Netanyahu

Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) meanwhile once again telephoned with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to a spokesman, he penetrated an improvement in the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. “The Chancellor expressed his great concern about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza. He asked Prime Minister Netanyahu to do everything in his power in order to immediately achieve an armistice,” said government spokesman Stefan Kornelius.

French President Emmanuel Macron referred to a international conference on a two-state solution planned this Monday in New York and Saudi Arabia planned. There, a new dynamic in favor of a fair and permanent solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be created on the basis of the two-state solution. Macron had previously announced that he would then announce the recognition of Palestine as a state. For this he had attracted sharp criticism of Israel and his ally.