The Israeli regime has announced it will allow only 300 aid trucks into Gaza — half of the number agreed under the Trump-mediated truce.
Zionist officials claim the decision stems from Hamas’s alleged failure to return the bodies of about 20 Israeli captives still held in the Strip. However, The issue of returning the bodies of the captives has already been resolved between the mediators. Israel knew and admitted that retrieving the bodies would be very difficult, that it could take weeks and maybe even months to get to those bodies.
Nearly a week after the ceasefire, humanitarian agencies report that the flow of life-saving aid remains dangerously low.
According to the World Food Program, just 137 aid trucks — mostly carrying flour and essential supplies — have entered Gaza.
These shipments are intended to sustain the besieged population for a few months at best.
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, journalist Tareq Abu Azzoum said Gazans remain anxious as the regime shows no sign of honoring its commitments.
“People are still expecting a full Israeli commitment regarding the entry of aid supplies,” he noted.
“There is an undeniable sense of fear regarding Israel’s rhetoric once all captives, living and deceased, are handed over.”
UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned the regime’s continued obstruction of access to Gaza.
She demanded that international journalists and humanitarian flotillas be allowed entry now that Israel has declared combat operations over.
“If peace has really started and Gaza is no longer a ‘combat zone,’ it means that (international) journalists can come in and (the Global Sumud Flotilla) can resume its humanitarian convoys, right?” she wrote on X.
“Or is Israel still afraid of (international) observers?”
Inside the Strip, the humanitarian collapse deepens.
Dr. Ahmed Mokhallati, former head of plastic surgery at al-Shifa Hospital, described catastrophic health conditions.
“In the middle of the noise of the ceasefire, people don’t notice that nothing has changed on the ground,” he told Al Jazeera.
“We still have the famine… There is no electricity, no water, no petrol, no food supplies, no medicines. And despite all of this, Israel is still controlling the borders, with very minimal access to everything in Gaza.”
He said the regime continues to deny doctors entry into Gaza.
“So, what’s happening is a continuation of ethnic cleansing,” he added.
“What’s happening is a continuation of this genocide on the ground.”
Mokhallati warned that thousands of patients with chronic illnesses have gone untreated for years, while over 15,000 await evacuation as Gaza’s healthcare system collapses under siege.
Since October 2023, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 67,913 people and wounded 170,134, leaving the enclave on the brink of humanitarian extinction.