PNN – “Samantha Power”, head of the United States foreign aid organization, while confirming the occurrence of famine in parts of Gaza, announced the lack of continuity in aid to this group.
According to Pakistan News Network’s report from the Guardian newspaper, as the first American official to confirm the famine in parts of Gaza, the head of the US Agency for Foreign Aid (USAID) said that aid workers are critical of the lack of continuity in foreign aid.
This newspaper continued: Aid workers say that the increase in aid to Gaza, as promised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call with US President Joe Biden last week, has not been realized so far.
Reports show that Israel’s claims that the number of trucks crossing into Gaza have increased are contradicted by UN records, and appear to be even decreasing.
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Jeremy Kunindyk, one of the former senior officials of the Biden administration, who is now the head of the International Refugee Assistance Agency, said in this context: Aids are currently much less than what was announced and there has been very little change in the flow of these aids.
According to Israel’s N12 channel, one of Netanyahu’s promises to Biden was to open the port of Ashdod in northern Gaza as a channel for providing humanitarian aid. But so far, none of the Israeli military forces, the authorities coordinating government activities of this regime, and the Ashdod port authorities have received instructions to open this passage for the passage of cargoes.
Aid officials say the amount of food entering the region is far below what is needed to prevent famine.
Power said in another part of his speech in the presence of members of one of the committees of the US Congress that officials of the relevant organization have analyzed the experts’ assessment of food insecurity in mid-March regarding the possibility of famine at the end of the same month and in the middle of May, and have recognized this judgment as “valid”.
American officials say that one of the main bottlenecks that prevent the distribution of food is the lack of trucks and drivers inside Gaza.
It is said that many of the truck drivers involved in food delivery are mostly Egyptian and are reluctant to use their vehicles inside Gaza for fear of being bombed or looted. This situation has intensified especially after the bombing of aid trucks of the NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK).