[News] Israel blocked over 250, 000 aid trucks from entering Gaza in one year of genocide

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 Israel blocked over 250,000 aid trucks from entering Gaza in one year of
genocide: Officials

The UN warned last week that over 1.8 million people in the Gaza Strip are
facing ‘extreme levels’ of hunger

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OCT 22, 2024 -
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Israel has been preventing the entry of hundreds of thousands of
humanitarian aid trucks into the besieged Gaza Strip since the beginning of
the war last year, Gaza’s Government Media Office confirmed in a statement
on 22 October.

Since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Israel has blocked “more than a quarter of a
million trucks of aid and goods,” the statement said.

This is part of “reinforcing the starvation policy and using it as a weapon
of war against civilians and against children, especially by preventing the
entry of food, baby milk, and nutritional supplements,” it added.

Over the course of the war, Israeli settlers have also repeatedly attacked
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24673> aid trucks attempting to deliver
goods to Gaza.

Hundreds of aid trucks used to cross into the Gaza Strip on a daily basis
before the war began in October 2023.

Several rights groups, including Human Rights Watch (HRW
<https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/18/israel-starvation-used-weapon-war-gaza>),
as well as UN
<https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-war-un-food-starvation-d9afdd12ec8da3152d4d0c88b473ca62>
officials, have determined that Israel is carrying out a deliberate
starvation campaign in Gaza. Over the past few months, famine has
completely overtaken
<https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/07/un-experts-declare-famine-has-spread-throughout-gaza-strip>
the strip.

The UN warned <https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155836> last week that
over 1.8 million Gazans are facing “extremely critical” levels of hunger.
As a result of its starvation campaign and other forms of warfare against
Gaza, Tel Aviv has been accused of genocide at the International Court of
Justice (ICJ).

The media office statement comes as Israel has continued, since early this
month, to carry out a brutal siege and extermination campaign in the northern
Gaza Strip
<https://thecradle.co/articles/siege-of-north-gaza-intensifies-as-israel-massacres-dozens>
under the so-called General’s Plan, aimed at expelling the hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians who remain north of the strip.

Over 500 Palestinians have been killed in the north since the start of the
siege two weeks ago, which has focused heavily on the city of Jabalia and
its refugee camp.

At least eight civilians were killed in Jabalia on Tuesday, a day after
over 10 were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli attack on a UNRWA
school in the northern city.

Israel also attacked southern Gaza on 22 October, killing at least five in
Rafah and Khan Yunis, including a child.

Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance fighters are still confronting Israeli
forces in the north despite the severe conditions.

Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said on 22 October in a statement
that it detonated an explosive device near a group of 12 soldiers, killing
and wounding several of them.
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