The top UN official overseeing aid and reconstruction in Gaza told that the international community was “collectively failing” to help innocent civilians in the territory.
Sigrid Kaag, who was appointed nine months ago to improve the delivery of emergency aid, said the report she was supposed to submit to the UN Security Council today would be “very bleak and potentially alarming”.
Describing the situation in Gaza as a “major disaster”, Kaag said: “We are not meeting needs, let alone the inability to create opportunities or give hope to civilians in Gaza.”
In a rare interview, the UN High Coordinator for Humanitarian Action and Reconstruction in Gaza noted that regulations for the delivery of aid – including through multiple land and sea routes to Gaza – are now in place.
