And despite an uptick in the trickle of supplies, the number of aid trucks entering Gaza remains tiny - averaging 14 daily - compared to the 400 trucks seen daily in normal times for a population of 2.3 million now desperate for essentials like bread, aid officials say.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said their Gaza City warehouses had suffered "severe damage" on Monday and were out of service. While UNICEF is bringing in medical supplies, he said, "distribution is becoming more and more difficult". World Health Organization spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said on Tuesday it had sent no further aid to northern Gaza hospitals since Oct. 24, citing a lack of security guarantees.He said there had been 82 attacks on healthcare facilities in Gaza since the conflict began on Oct. 7, with 491 people killed in the attacks, including 16 on duty health workers, and 28 ambulances damaged or destroyed.
He said such a condition was ripe for the outbreak of diseases such as diarrhoea and respiratory and skin infections such as scabies.