Israel/Palestine

IDF: No famine in Gaza, but if UN keeps holding back 950 trucks, could be

The IDF admitted that aid in Gaza is at a dangerous point, but asserted that the UN needed to move its trucks to solve the issue

However, it cautioned, the UN and other international aid groups currently have a record 950 trucks sitting on the Gaza side of the border that they are failing to bring to Gazans.

All of this comes amid worldwide media coverage, based on Hamas Health Ministry reports, claiming that 15 Palestinians have died of starvation in the last 24 hours and that 600,000 people in Gaza – nearly one third of the population – are suffering from malnutrition.

A top IDF official met with leading UN bureaucrats regarding the issue on Tuesday, demanding to know how they could accuse Israel of causing famine in Gaza, which, again, has not happened yet but might shortly should the UN continue to abandon its trucks – while simultaneously leaving the aid trucks to sit there without distributing the food.

According to the senior IDF official, the UN bureaucrats sat quietly for at least 20 seconds, struggling to come up with a response. Eventually, one of them said that they would make more of an effort to get the trucks moving again, the IDF reported.