According to the UN estimate, Gaza needs a minimum of 500-600 trucks of aid daily to feed its 2 million inhabitants. Of this community of 3 million people, over 90% are refugees at the edge of hunger. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has said that areas in Gaza are at the precipice of famine. 

Despite the worsening humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip due to the ongoing Israeli operations, aid trucks have started entering Gaza through the Karem Abu Salem crossing. On Sunday, al-Qahera, a loyalist TV channel of the Egypt state Ted, released footage of these trucks entering Gaza that, though tiny, was a start towards the realistic and critical situation that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians go through daily. 

 The first four trucks were offices bearing fuel consignments for hospitals and desalination plants, while the other trucks, expected to arrive, were to carry cooking gas. Nonetheless, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Deir el-Balah in Gaza, Hani Mahmoud, commented that these amounts are minimal; indeed, these are just the first shipments. “The 200 trucks are not enough in the face of challenges and the difficult, long hours produced by not only the ferocious airstrike attacks but the situation on the ground,” Mahmoud said. 

 Aid deliveries were previously stopped since the earlier part of May at the Rafah border because of the escalating military operations of the Jewish state in the area, which had served as a shelter to other Palestinians. NGOs, UN representatives, and medical staff were calling on Israel to open the border to send these items into Gaza to avoid a hunger crisis. 

 Egypt and the United States proposed finding a way to temporarily allow UN humanitarian aid to enter Gaza through the Karni crossing until procedures are set that would enable the Rafah border to be opened legally from the Palestinian side. However, literature research reveals that some food supplies have reached their spoilage period due to undue delay attributable to Israel. 

This conflict has taken a toll on the population of Gaza in a considerable way. What operates is that according to the Ministry of Health, 35,984 have been killed, and from October to the current date, a new casualty of 81 have been killed within the current 24 hours. Furthermore, 80,643 people have been reported to have been injured during the calamities mentioned above. Recent attacks have deepened the situation, with more attacks and losses reported from bombings in different areas in Gaza. 

 I reported that at least 58 people were killed yesterday in Jabalia, and 10 children took refuge in a school. Six members of a family were killed in Rafah, and the survivors were brought to Kuwaiti Hospital due to an Israeli raid. At the same time, shelling of the women’s centre in the Nuseirat refugee camp killed a child and six other people. 

 Currently, in northern Gaza, Israeli forces are moving closer to Jabalia; they intend to capture the greatest refugee camp. In the last two weeks, the war escalation has been recorded with Hamas capturing Israeli soldier allegations, which the Israeli military dismissed. 

 As aid reaches the Strip in limited quantities, the problem of delivering it during attacks persists. The global society has been urging for an even enhanced and long-lasting humanitarian intervention to help the innocent people of Gaza. The circumstances prove that it is high time to call a cease-fire and achieve a permanent and all-inclusive peace, which will help reveal the causes of the conflict, solve the problem and stop the suffering of the people.