Aid flowing into Gaza remains nowhere near the levels promised under the U.S.-brokered cease-fire, an analysis of Israeli military data shows, as relief groups warn the shortfall is crippling survival for the enclave’s 2 million people.
Under the October cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas, Israel agreed to allow 600 trucks of aid into Gaza.
However, only an average of around 459 trucks a day have entered the Gaza Strip between Oct. 12, when the flow of the aid restarted, and Sunday, according to an AP analysis of the latest figures by COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge of coordinating aid entry.
COGAT said that roughly 18,000 trucks of food aid had entered Gaza from when the cease-fire took effect until Sunday, amounting to 70% of all aid that had entered the territory since the truce.
This means that COGAT estimates that including the rest of the aid – items that are not food, such as tents and medicines – a total of just over 25,700 trucks have entered Gaza. That is well under the 33,600 trucks that should have gone in under the terms of the cease-fire.
