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UN: aid to Gaza constrained by limited crossings and coordination bottlenecks
Summary
One month after the ceasefire, the United Nations and partners say efforts to increase aid to Gaza are still held back by bureaucratic restrictions, limited crossings and insecurity; the briefing reported multiple coordination attempts with Israeli authorities were impeded and quoted UN staff describing the holdup as on the Israeli side.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told a press briefing that one month into the ceasefire efforts to ramp up aid to Gaza remain constrained by red tape, bans on some humanitarian partners, too few border crossings and persistent insecurity.
Briefing official Farhan said UN teams made eight coordination attempts with Israeli authorities in recent days; only two were fully facilitated, four were impeded on the ground and one was delayed for 10 hours…
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