Countries must put pressure on Israel to stop ‘micro-checking’ Gaza aid, Tánaiste says

Tánaiste Micheál Martin: 'The number of trucks getting in is far too low and is actually getting lower.' Photograph: Michelle Tantussi/AFP via Getty

“What the international community needs to do is to put pressure on Israel to stop all this micro-checking on every truck that is going into Gaza through Kerem Shalom and through Rafah. Before this war, 500 trucks a day were going in. Now it is 150 and some days last week it was as low as 59.”Gaza aid ship prepares to leave Cyprus as humanitarian concerns grow

“None of these efforts can take from the fundamental issue here that the most effective and simplest and impactful way of getting aid into Gaza is through the road crossings and through the borders and getting a sufficiency of trucks in there to make a difference.” “Hunger and severe malnutrition are now widespread in the Gaza Strip, where about 2.2 million Palestinians are facing severe shortages resulting from Israel destroying food supplies and severely restricting the flow of food, medicines and other humanitarian supplies.

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