Pitiful amount of aid reaching Gaza

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We estimate that only an eighth of the life-saving supplies of food and medicines needed by the Gazan population have crossed into besieged territory since the Israeli military operation began on December 27.

This figure is pitiful.

Furthermore, the daily three-hour ceasefire designed to allow aid agencies to deliver what little aid was available is totally inadequate, severely hampering aid efforts.

The Israeli government said that by the morning of 12 January, it had allowed 900 aid trucks to cross into Gaza.

According to our estimates at least 7,200 trucks should have been allowed through to ensure the population had the bare minimum of food, fuel and medicine.

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"More than a million people in Gaza rely on aid coming in by truck, but so far the amount coming in is nowhere near what is needed. The amount of aid that has crossed into Gaza so far is pitiful."

Mr Dempsey added that even if sufficient aid were getting through, the daily three-hour ceasefire for delivering the aid was totally inadequate, "Three hours a day is simply not enough to allow us to conduct an aid operation on that scale that is needed. Thousands of people desperately need our help and we can only reach them if we are allowed to operate more freely."

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