Thursday, August 29, 2024

Aid delivery in Gaza is nearly impossible. Why hasn’t the US intervened?

from al Jazeera

The United Nations is warning that the threats to aid delivery in Gaza are reaching crisis levels, as Israel continues to wage war in the Palestinian enclave.

But advocates say the United States — a critical ally of Israel and the largest donor to the UN — has been conspicuously silent.

On Monday, a UN official said the organisation was forced to pause almost all aid operations in Gaza after Israel issued another raft of wide-ranging evacuation orders.

And on Wednesday, the UN’s World Food Programme announced it would temporarily halt employee travel in Gaza after one of its vehicles came under attack as it neared an Israeli checkpoint...

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