Geneva, SANA-The United Nations has confirmed that the amount of aid entering the Gaza Strip is still insufficient, asserting that the Israeli occupation continues to place obstacles in its way.

The UN news website quoted Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), as saying in a press conference: “The needs inside Gaza are so enormous, “There should be hundreds and hundreds of trucks entering Gaza not just daily, not only weekly, but for months and possibly years to come.

He asserted that people in Gaza are dying every day. This is a crisis, on the brink of famine and aid alone will not solve the problem.

Regarding the shortage of food and fuel supplies, Larke confirmed that “the United Nations was able to collect approximately 200,000 liters of fuel last Monday from the Kerem Shalom crossing in the Gaza Strip, but the limited quantities are not sufficient.”

According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), at least 600 trucks are needed daily to meet the basic humanitarian needs of more than two million people in Gaza Strip.

For its part, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) confirmed that the entry of some food supplies into Gaza represents a small fraction of what is needed, noting that malnutrition among children in Gaza is reaching catastrophic levels.

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