{"id":57203,"date":"2025-05-22T10:44:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/all-eyes-on-gaza-as-aid-teams-retrieve-first-lifesaving-relief-in-months\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:44:48","slug":"all-eyes-on-gaza-as-aid-teams-retrieve-first-lifesaving-relief-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=57203","title":{"rendered":"All eyes on Gaza as aid teams retrieve first lifesaving relief in months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cToday will be crucial. Truckloads of lifesaving aid finally on move again,\u201d said top UN aid relief coordinator Tom Fletcher.<\/p>\n<p>Hours earlier and in a major development, 198 trucks entered Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south of the enclave, carrying nutrition supplies, medicines and wheat flour.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the news online, Mr. Fletcher reported that humanitarian organizations then retrieved \u201cabout 90 truckloads of goods\u201d in a nighttime operation to prepare them for distribution.<\/p>\n<p>But significant challenges remain \u201cin loading and dispatching goods\u201d Mr. Fletcher continued, citing security and looting concerns, \u201cdelays in coordination approvals and inappropriate routes being provided by Israeli forces that are not viable for the movement of cargo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>No commercial or humanitarian supplies have been allowed into Gaza since 2 March, deepening an already catastrophic hunger crisis and sparking widespread condemnation from the international community.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN World Health Organization (WHO) at least 57 children have reportedly died from the effects of malnutrition, according to the local health authorities. The number is likely an underestimate and is expected to increase if the aid blockade continues. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In their latest report, respected and UN-partnered food insecurity experts warned that nearly 71 000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished over the next 11 months unless Gazans can access sufficient food and healthcare support.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Working through the night<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Video footage published online Thursday by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) showed aid crews hurrying to offload sacks of flour from trucks at a floodlit warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the storage hangar, other images showed large quantities of dough being made in an industrial mixer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur teams are working non-stop to get bakeries running again,\u201d the agency said, referring to the 25 facilities it had to close on 31 March when wheat flour and fuel ran out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBut it&#8217;s nowhere near enough to support everyone in need. We need more trucks, more food, in now,\u201d <\/strong>the UN agency warned.<\/p>\n<h2>More to come on this developing story&#8230;<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/story\/2025\/05\/1163571\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday will be crucial. 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