The spokeswoman for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Tess Ingram, said that more than a million children in Gaza still need water and food, and that thousands of children sleep hungry every night, despite the ceasefire agreement being in effect, while 650,000 of them need to return to school.
Meanwhile, the Government Media Office in Gaza says Israel continues to choke the flow of aid into the besieged enclave, stating that it has been breaching the ceasefire agreement.
Since the truce took effect on October 11, an average of just 145 commercial and aid trucks have entered Gaza daily, only 24 percent of the 600 trucks agreed upon in the deal.
Tess Ingram of UNICEF explained, in a press interview on Sunday, that the ceasefire represents “good news”, because it means stopping the daily bombing that was killing children, but “it is not enough alone to end hunger or ensure that families have access to safe drinking water”.
She added: “Families in Gaza are still struggling daily to survive, and the infrastructure that provided water and medical care to children has been severely damaged, making access to these basic services extremely difficult”.
Ingram said that the amount of aid that entered the Strip after the ceasefire began increased slightly during the first two weeks, but it was “still completely insufficient,” and that the quantities that arrived were still below the levels that were entering before the outbreak of the war.
She pointed out The spokeswoman for the United Nations Children’s Fund said that thousands of children are still sleeping hungry, while others in hospitals suffer from treatable diseases, but the lack of doctors and medicines makes them suffer without treatment.
