Israel, on the other hand, has blamed a shortage of aid entering the strip on a “lack of cooperation from the international community”.
As children, pregnant women and journalists are reportedly starving to death in the territory, with aid agencies claiming there are thousands of trucks of aid just waiting to enter Gaza, The i Paper looks at what is stopping food getting in.
Lazzarini has urged Israel to allow “unrestricted and uninterrupted humanitarian assistance to Gaza”.
Gaza is suffering from man-made “mass starvation”, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization chief, said earlier this week, pointing to an Israeli “blockade”.
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Aid agencies, as a result, claim only a very small proportion of the food that is needed to feed Gaza’s estimated two million people is actually getting over the border – which can only be crossed through just a few of checkpoints.
As a result of the shortages, prices at food markets have skyrocketed, with a bag of flour costing over £400, according to the UK charity Christian Aid.
Lack of international cooperation hindering stocks, Israel says
Halabi claimed they had not yet been sent out for collection “due to a lack of cooperation from the international community and international organisations”.
Speaking to reporters at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, he added: “We allowed longer work hours, and we took all the necessary steps to allow the international community to bring a very large amount of humanitarian aid into [Gaza], to combat the famine narrative, which Hamas uses to fight against us,” he said.
According to Halabi, an “intense and violent campaign” by Hamas against Israel’s humanitarian aid mechanism was also at fault.
WATCH: 950 trucks worth of aid, currently waiting in Gazafor international organizations to pick up and distribute to Gazan civilians. This is after Israel facilitated the aid entry into Gaza. pic.twitter.com/aQTR7Sryhs
— LTC Nadav Shoshani (@LTC_Shoshani) July 22, 2025On Friday, an Israeli official said they would begin to allow foreign countries to “parachute aid into Gaza”.
Earlier this year, with US backing, Israel set up a handful of aid distribution sites, using a controversial organisation named the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GFH).
Once at the sites, the distribution of aid has reportedly been chaotic – and deadly.
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Over 100 Gazans have now starved to death, the Hamas-run health ministry has said, with the most recent weeks bringing the most severe conditions.
square PATRICK COCKBURN Mass starvation in Gaza is the great horror of our age
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The latest deadly surge in hunger has caused the death of at least 21 children, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said early this week.
In July alone, 5,100 children have been admitted to malnutrition programmes, including 800 who were severely emaciated, said Rik Peeperkorn, WHO’s representative for the occupied Palestinian territories.
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