Geneva:
More than 10,000 help trucks have been crossed to Gaza since a fragile cease -the fire on January 19, the humanitarian chief of the United Nations said on Thursday.
“We have moved more than 10,000 trucks in the two weeks since ceases -the fire, a huge increase,” said Tom Fletcher on X.
The UN-under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Coordinator for Emergency Assistance added that he himself “was about to cross” to the north of Gaza with a convoy of help “.
“Thank you to the many people who make it possible to get these trucks from vital, life -saving food, medicines and tents through,” he said.
His comments come as Israel and Hamas are preparing to negotiate the second phase of the Stakes -Fire Agreement, which has paused 15 months of ruthless fighting and bombing, unleashed after Hamas's fatal attack on October 7, 2023.
That attack resulted in the death of 1,210 people on the Israeli side, usually citizens, according to a AFP count based on official Israeli figures.
The retreat response of Israel killed at least 47,518 people in Gaza, the majority of them citizens, according to the Hamas-Runned territory. The UN regards these figures as reliable.
With only a ray of help with the territory before the ceasefire, international aid organizations repeatedly reported a crisis levels of hunger in the Israeli Gaza Strip and warned about popping famine.
The ceasefire has led to an increase in food, fuel, medical and other help permitted to Gaza, and enabled people who are displaced by the war to return to the north of Palestinian territory.
Under the running 42-day first phase of the Gaza-Weapon Stillte, so far, 18 hostages have so far been released in exchange for around 600 mainly Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.
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