RAMALLAH, December, 23, 2024 (WAFA) – Oxfam, a non-governmental organization, announced that only 12 humanitarian aid trucks distributed food and water in northern Gaza in two and a half months, sounding the alarm about the deteriorating situation in the besieged Strip.

Oxfam said in a statement that "deliberate delays and systematic obstruction by the Israeli army have resulted in only 12 trucks being able to deliver aid to starving Palestinian civilians," including deliveries, "out of the few 34 trucks loaded with food and water that were allowed into the northern Gaza governorate in the past two and a half months."

It pointed out that "in the case of three of them, as soon as food and water were distributed to the school where residents had taken refuge, it was subsequently evacuated and bombed a few hours later."

The occupation has imposed strict controls on the arrival of international aid, which is essential for the 2.4 million people in Gaza, since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

Oxfam said that it and other international humanitarian organizations have been "continuously prevented" from providing vital assistance in northern Gaza since October 6, when Israel intensified its bombing.

Oxfam reported that "thousands of people remain isolated, but with humanitarian access blocked, it is impossible to accurately count them."

It added that "in early December, humanitarian organizations working in Gaza were receiving calls from vulnerable people trapped in homes or shelters, who had run out of food and water."

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