The UN warns that the aid Israel allows into Gaza is just a "drop in the ocean."

BarcelonaThe "humanitarian pauses" to which Israel had committed following growing international criticism of the hunger crisis it has caused in Gaza are not serving to change the situation in the Strip, international organizations denounce. According to the UN, Israel has allowed the entry of 100 trucks with aid, but they warn that this amount is totally insufficient in the face of "the catastrophic health crisis." Under normal conditions, 500 trucks entered the Strip daily. Another baby died of malnutrition this Monday, bringing the number of victims attributable to hunger to 147, according to Gaza health authorities. The majority, 88, are infants.

The situation is so desperate and so evident that US President Donald Trump himself has been forced to react. "People are starving, and that can't be faked," he said this Monday during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland. The US president has announced food shipments to the Strip and assured that "distribution centers" will be set up in Gaza "without fences or wire fences around them" so that people can access them on foot. "Now they can't. They see the food 30 meters away, they see it, it's all there, but nobody goes looking for it because there are fences that prevent them. It's crazy what's happening," he stated. He also indicated that he will work with other countries such as the United Kingdom to send more humanitarian aid and food to the Strip.

"We will set up food centers in collaboration with very good people. We will provide funding, we just raised trillions of dollars, we have a lot of money, and we will invest some in food," he said. "We will give money and we will give food, but I want to make sure they get the food," Trump said when asked what he would say to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when speaking about the situation in Gaza. Trump explained that he has been speaking with Netanyahu in recent days about "various plans" and "alternatives" to free the remaining hostages in the Strip. "We must galvanize other nations as well to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza," he added. Keir Starmer also criticized the humanitarian "catastrophe" in Gaza: "The images of young children dying of starvation are disgusting."

Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, welcomed Israel's decision to allow more aid into Gaza as "a step in the right direction," but made it clear that it was "just a drop in the ocean" and that "we need a huge amount of aid." He recalled that international law prohibits restricting civilian access to humanitarian aid. The entry of infant formula has been delayed for 150 days, which "threatens the lives of more than 40,000 children under one year of age." He also noted that at least two children have died in Gaza hospitals in the last 24 hours due to a lack of specialized nutritional supplements. Armed violence has also failed to stem the tide of armed violence. Nine people have died at two food distribution points in northern Gaza. The United Nations pledged to Tel Aviv that it should facilitate the distribution of humanitarian aid within the Strip, and that it would also open humanitarian corridors to facilitate the arrival of food and medicine. Israeli, Israel Katz, has returned to his threatening tone in an interview with the Israeli media Ynet"If Hamas doesn't release the hostages, the gates of hell will open in Gaza." Katz acknowledged that the war in Gaza "is a complex one, beyond anything we've done so far," and asserted that "we will soon have to make drastic decisions."

Israeli NGOs accuse his government of "genocide"

In this context, internal criticism is growing in Israel. This Monday, the Israeli organizations B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) were the first local NGOs to accuse Netanyahu's government of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. "At this moment, it is especially important to call a spade a spade," said Dr. Daphna Shochat of PHRI, presenting a report by the group that analyzes the medical situation in the enclave and concludes that the Israeli offensive meets the legal requirements for genocide, according to the Geneva Convention.

For her part, Yuli Novak, the executive director of B'Tselem—an NGO focused on denouncing the occupation of Palestinian territories—said that Israeli society is "capable of erasing people's humanity and losing all empathy and moral obligations." BT'Tselem also published a report entitled Our genocide, which documents statements by politicians and senior military officials calling for the destruction of Palestinian society in Gaza. The NGO warns that Israel is beginning to apply what it learned in the Strip in the West Bank and that the risk of genocide could extend to the entire Palestinian population.