Israel under the avalanche of criticism due to humanitarian blockage of gauze

United Nations representatives confirmed that Israel had allowed about a hundred trucks by entering the Gaza area. This is much more than on Monday when the Jewish state announced a partial rise in its two -month -old Humanitarian blockages of the devastated Palestinian enclavewhich causes increasing international pressure, including Western countries.

« Today we have applied and received permission to enter more trucks, much more than approved yesterday, » he said Jens Laerkea spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) in Geneva. « Of course, we expect that with this approval many of them will be hoped that everyone, today, reaches a point from where it will be possible to get deeper into the gauze area, » his words summarized at AFP.

According to the UN, Israel, after partial withdrawal of the humanitarian blockade, approved about 100 trucks with the help of entry into Gaza. Photo: Reuters

Laerke confirmed that Israel allowed nine trucks to enter nine trucks on Monday, of which only five actually arrived at their destination. The United Nations and Humanitarian Organizations warn that many of the 2.1 million people of Gaza are threatened by hunger if the Israeli side does not release the inflow of food and other types of humanitarian aid to occupied territory. The youngest are especially at risk; Tom FletcherUN General Under -Secretary responsible for Humanitarian Affairs is in an interview with BBC gave a shocking assessment that up to 14,000 infants may die in Gaza in the next 48 hours if they did not have the necessary help.

According to the World Organization, malnutrition among the inhabitants of the enclave has been increasing at least since April. In case of continuing the current lack of food is Akihiro seitDirector of Health at the UN Agency to help Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA), warned that malnutrition will « increase exponentially and then escape outside control. »

Slovenia to tighten the sanctions against Israel

Israeli authorities also agree that hunger people in Gaza are threatened. The Prime Minister spoke about this on Monday Benjamin Netanyahu And in this way, in his extreme political partners, after all, he tried to justify the partial rise in humanitarian blockade, saying that allies expect this from Israel, specifically pointing out members of the US Senate. According to him, the state cannot afford the outbreak of hunger in Gaza from a practical and diplomatic point of view.

The humanitarian blockage of gauze has been going on for more than two months. Photo: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters

This was not the only sign of increasing international pressure on Israel. The British Labor Government announced today that due to the blockade of Gaza, it has interrupted trade negotiations with the Jewish state and accepted sanctions against Jewish settlers in the western bank due to violence against Palestinians.

The Israeli war against Hamas has devastated Gaza since 2023. Photo: Jack Guez/AFP

The UN warns of the risk of exponential increase in malnutrition in gauze. Photo: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters

The decision was made by London the day after the British Prime Minister Keir Ster.French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carste In a sharp -worded joint statement, he warned that the extent of human suffering in Gaza was « unsustainable ». “We will not stand by the side, while the Netanyahu government performs these terrible acts. If Israel does not cease a new military offensive and eliminates its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete measures, « said three Western leaders.

The situation in Gaza and the West Bank was also the subject of debate at a meeting of Foreign Ministers of the European Union in Brussels, attended by the head of Slovenian diplomacy Tanja Fajon and after reporting Were He confirmed that Slovenia has been in a circle of a small group of countries that is committed to tightening sanctions against Israel for a long time, including trade. This option would come in handy if the EU is unable to accept a single position on this issue, she explained.

Tanja Fajon, along with Foreign Ministers Spain, Ireland and Luxembourg, also sent a letter to the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Kaji Kallasin which it supported the Dutch government’s proposal for the revision of trade relations between twenty -seven and Israel.