Israel said commercial goods will not enter the Gaza Strip, which cuts off a major source of food and shelter supplies to the Strip.
And the coordinator of Israeli government work in the Palestinian territories (KOGAT), an Israeli military entity supervising humanitarian affairs in Gaza, announced that coordination operations for the entry of commercial goods were suspended, in a statement yesterday, and the Kogat unit added that it was based on a statement issued by Gaza merchants, which the Palestinians denied.
Most Gazans depend on aid, after three years of war, frequent displacement and severe restrictions imposed by Israel on the delivery of aid. A global hunger control observatory warned in July that more than two-thirds of Gazans could face severe famine by the end of the year. The population has a population of about two million, most of whom live in temporary shelters.
