Israel Blocks 22k Aid Trucks as Gaza Famine Worsens
In a statement issued Sunday, GMO stated the Israeli occupation is deliberately engineering 'starvation, siege, and chaos' by preventing the entry of essential aid.
It added that the trucks, which have accumulated at Gaza's border crossings, belong mostly to international and UN agencies and contain food, medicine, and fuel needed to sustain more than 2.4 million people trapped in the Strip.
'This is a systematic policy aimed at worsening the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. The Israeli occupation is committing a war crime by withholding aid and intensifying the siege,' the GMO statement said.
The media office called for the immediate, safe, and unconditional entry of all detained aid trucks and for the full reopening of crossings to ensure a continuous flow of relief.
It also held the Israeli occupation and the international community, particularly those complicit through silence, fully responsible for the deepening crisis.
The reality of starvation among the population in Gaza remains dire. On Saturday, just 36 trucks managed to enter Gaza, far below the minimum daily need of 600 trucks, and many of them were looted amid ongoing chaos as Gaza's infrastructure has collapsed under the weight of war, siege, and starvation.
Since March, the Israeli occupation has imposed a near-total blockade, closing all border crossings and cutting off humanitarian access.
Famine has already killed at least 175 people, including 93 children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
'The aid that does make it in doesn't begin to address the catastrophic hunger crisis. People are dying, and the situation grows more desperate each day,' the media office warned.
The statement concludes with an urgent appeal to the international community to pressure Israel into complying with international humanitarian law and to act before it is too late to save lives.
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