Despite Netanyahu's announcement, no aid trucks have gone into Gaza
Israel has said it would allow a limited amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza even as its “extensive” new ground operations are underway there. But despite the announcement, no aid had gone in by mid-afternoon Monday.
Aid trucks that were briefly parked on the Israeli side of a border crossing turned back and drove off into Israel. The developments come after a nearly three-month blockade and warnings by global experts of impeding famine.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that a “starvation crisis” in Gaza would jeopardize the new offensive. In early March, Israel cut off all food, medicine and other supplies to the territory of over 2 million people to pressure Hamas over ceasefire terms.
The UN humanitarian agency OCHA said Monday that it was in talks with Israeli authorities on the resumption of aid to Gaza.
"We have been approached by Israeli authorities to resume limited aid delivery, and we are in discussions with them now on how this would take place given the conditions on the ground," OCHA said in a statement.
Source: Associated Press, Agence France Presse
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