RAMALLAH, May 21, 2025 (WAFA) – The Government Operations Room for Emergency Interventions in the Southern Governorates (Gaza Strip) rejected on Wednesday Israel’s claims on opening Gaza crossings for humanitarian aid as baseless.
The Government Operations Room said in a press statement that the Israeli occupation authorities’ claims that they had opened Gaza border crossings and allowed the entry of aid into the Strip were entirely baseless, particularly since Israel continued to block the crossings for the 83rd consecutive day.
It condemned the ongoing closure of Gaza crossings and noted that all aid trucks were still stranded and denied entry into the Strip, in stark contrast to Israel’s claims that it had allowed humanitarian and medical aid to flow into the Strip.
It added that Israel, the occupying power, was deliberately procrastinating on allowing trucks of aid into the Strip, as a prelude to the implementation of a new Israeli scheme intended to exclude UN humanitarian agencies and militarize aid.
It pointed out that several Logistic companies had already reached out to UN humanitarian agencies, offering to transport aid to Gaza, provided that such aid would be handed over to certain entities in return for over 130,000 shekels (approx. $34,000) per truckload.
The Government Operations Room called on the international community and UN institutions to immediately intervene to put a permanent end not only to the illegal Israeli blockade on Gaza, but also to the Israeli genocidal war, and save the lives of innocent civilians who are at the imminent risk of death daily due to the lack of medicines and the fact that very few hospitals in the Strip were still functional.
It stressed the need that humanitarian aid shall be allowed entry into the enclave only via UN institutions, while cautioning against the repercussions of the Israeli policy of using water and starvation as methods of warfare, coupled with the outbreak of diseases and malnutrition.
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