The United Nations announced that 85 percent of its attempts to coordinate aid convoys and humanitarian visits to the northern Gaza Strip were rejected or obstructed by the Israeli enemy authorities last month.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it had submitted 98 requests to “Zionist enemy forces” for a permit to cross through the checkpoint along Wadi Gaza, but only 15 of them were allowed through, according to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

Dujarric noted that OCHA “is concerned about the fate of the remaining Palestinians in northern Gaza as the siege continues there, and calls on the ‘Zionist entity’ to urgently open the area to humanitarian operations to the extent necessary given the enormous needs.”