Israel blames problems on the Palestinian side for inadequacies in aid delivery. Without specifically mentioning the new overland route, the WFP wrote on social media platform X that it had “delivered enough food for 25,000 people to Gaza City early Tuesday in (the) first successful convoy to the north since 20 February”.”With people in northern #Gaza on the brink of famine, we need deliveries every day,” it added. Morocco, meanwhile, sent a plane loaded with 40 tonnes of relief supplies directly to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, a diplomatic source said, a bid to bypass bottlenecks on the Egypt-Gaza border. War on childrenPhilippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, called on Tuesday for an immediate ceasefire, labelling the conflict “a war on children”. In a post on X, Lazzarini cited UN and Gaza health ministry figures that suggest more children have been killed in Gaza between October and February “than the number of children killed in four years of wars around the world combined”.European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell, meanwhile, told the UN Security Council that “starvation is being used as a war arm”.”This humanitarian crisis… is manmade,” he said. The war started with the October 7 Hamas attack that resulted in about 1,160 deaths in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on Israeli official figures.
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