The United Nations (UN) has reported significant improvements in aid operations amid the implementation of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but local sources report that Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement and that at least two Palestinians have been killed.
Citing data from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesman Farhan Haku said that aid, cargo and humanitarian personnel are moving into areas that were previously difficult to reach.
“Our humanitarian partners on the ground say that the working environment has improved significantly,” Haku added.
He said that aid agencies on the ground in Gaza had transported 118 truckloads of food and flour packages from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warehouses to more than 60 distribution points across the southern Gaza Strip the previous day.
In other news, at least two Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in Israeli attacks in southern and central Gaza today.
The Israeli army shelled a house in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood in western Rafah and also attacked a Palestinian in the eastern Al-Bureij refugee camp.
The first six-week phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement came into effect on January 19, ending a war that has killed nearly 47,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded more than 111,400 since October 7, 2023.
The three-phase agreement includes a prisoner exchange, the establishment of a permanent ceasefire, and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, AA writes.
