GENEVA: Maintaining the Gaza ceasefire is crucial to delivering life-saving humanitarian aid in the territory, the United Nations said Tuesday, repeating a call for all crossings to be opened.
“Sustaining the ceasefire is vital; really it’s the only way we can save lives,” Abeer Etefa, Middle East spokeswoman for the UN’s World Food Programme, told a briefing in Geneva.
“We know it’s a fragile ceasefire; the most important thing is that it lasts.”
Etefa said that since the ceasefire came into force, 530 WFP trucks had crossed into Gaza, bringing in more than 6,700 tons of food, which she said was “enough for close to half a million people for two weeks.”
“Convoys are pushing through, food is getting to the warehouses and distributions are happening in an organized and dignified manner,” she said.
