UNOPS says fuel deliveries and clearance work have scaled under ceasefire; urges rapid move to early recovery

Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director of the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS), said at a remote briefing from East Jerusalem that UNOPS has sharply expanded fuel deliveries and is managing a Security Council–mandated mechanism to speed humanitarian aid into Gaza, and he urged immediate steps toward early recovery and rubble removal.

The ceasefire has "offered a much needed respite, but there is simply no time to lose," Moreira da Silva said. He told reporters that before the ceasefire UNOPS was delivering about 100,000 liters of fuel per day and that deliveries have risen to about 1,300,000 liters per day, a scale-up he described as a breakthrough for hospitals, bakeries and other critical services.

The nut graf: UNOPS is responsible for infrastructure, procurement and project management work in support of the wider UN response. The agency is managing the so-called UN 2720 mechanism—which Moreira da Silva said was created by a Security Council resolution—to approve, coordinate and track consignments into Gaza. He said the mechanism had…