Up to 75,000 people are still in the embattled north of the Gaza Strip, according to estimates by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
“For over 50 days, they have been facing diminishing conditions for survival,” UNRWA wrote in a post on X on Thursday.
It said the areas of Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun have been cut off from humanitarian aid for weeks due to heavy fighting.
The UN has attempted to reach these areas 91 times to provide assistance since October 6, UNRWA said, but “82 of these attempts were outright denied while 9 of them were impeded.”
A spokesman for the Israeli army said it was checking these reports.
Israel recently opened further crossings into the Gaza Strip to enable more aid deliveries.
It is trying to destroy the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip following the militia’s unprecedented massacre in its border area on October 7, 2023. Several towns in the north of Gaza are considered Hamas strongholds.
Israel accuses Hamas of deliberately hiding among civilians and of repeatedly intercepting aid deliveries.
