Negotiations to end nearly 20 months of war have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough, with Israel resuming operations in Gaza in March, ending a six-week truce.
“It’s the only defined area -- a country or defined territory within a country -- where you have the entire population at risk of famine. 100 percent of the population at risk of famine,“ he said, rejecting claims to the contrary by Israeli authorities.
At a press briefing in Geneva, Laerke detailed the difficulties faced by the United Nations in delivering humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
Laerke said 900 trucks of humanitarian aid had been authorised by Israel to enter the Strip since the blockade was partially lifted.
Laerke said the mission to deliver aid was “in an operational strait-jacket that makes it one of the most obstructed aid operations not only in the world today, but in recent history.”
“I don’t blame them, for one second, for taking the aid that essentially is already theirs -- but it’s not distributed in the way we want.”
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation -- a new organisation backed by Israel and the United States that emerged in early May -- has been distributing aid at several sites across the Strip this week.
Asked about the foundation’s operations, Laerke said: “It’s not working. It does not meet the needs of people. It creates chaos.”
Laerke said that by having people collect aid rather than delivering it to them where they are, they become a target for looters once they leave the site.
In a statement, GHF claimed it had delivered two million meals in four days.
“Our commitment to safely and effectively supplying food directly to a large, hungry population is unwavering,“ its interim executive director John Acree said.
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