UNWRA: a Food Convoy to be Hit
Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed
UN humanitarians reported on Monday that a food convoy in Gaza had been hit by shelling after a deadly weekend of hostilities in Gaza in which at least 234 Palestinians were reportedly killed, stoking regional tensions in the Middle East.
“This morning a food convoy waiting to move into northern Gaza was hit by Israeli naval gunfire; thankfully no-one was injured,” said Tom White, Director of Affairs for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNWRA.
Accompanying the post on X, formerly Twitter, two photographs showed a stationary flat-bed lorry parked in front of a UN vehicle with a gaping hole where part of its cargo and protective tarpaulin had been.
Several boxes of relief supplies lay scattered on the roadside, but it was not immediately clear what they contained nor where the lorry was.
UNRWA’s bid to reach the beleaguered north came as the UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported last Friday that it, too, had been unable to reach northern Gaza City for the third time in a week.
“We only managed four convoys in the month of January, that’s around 35 truckloads of food (and) enough for almost 130,000 people,” said WFP Country Director for Palestine, Matthew Hollingworth.
“(It’s) really not enough to prevent a famine and we know levels of hunger in Gaza are getting at that level now,” the WFP officer said.
