MSF says Israel is allowing "inadequate" aid into Gaza – DW – 05/21/2025
05/21/2025
May 21, 2025 MSF says Israel is allowing 'ridiculously inadequate' aid supply into Gaza
The Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) aid group said that the amount of aid Israel has started to allow into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip is not nearly enough and is "a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over."
"The Israeli authorities' decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving," said Pascale Coissard, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza's Khan Younis.
"This plan is a way to instrumentalise aid, making it a tool to further Israeli forces' military objectives," she added.
According to the UN, 500 aid trucks entered Gaza every day before October 2023. MSF stated that the current authorization for 100 trucks per day is woefully inadequate given the dire situation.
"Meanwhile, evacuation orders are continuing to uproot the population, while Israeli forces are still subjecting health facilities to intensive attacks," MSF said.
On Tuesday, UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said that the nine trucks cleared to enter on Monday were "a drop in the ocean of what is urgently needed."
In an interview with the BBC, he said that 14,000 babies could die within the next 48 hours if aid does not reach them in time.
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