WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Only 12 aid trucks have managed to distribute food and water to Palestinians in northern Gaza in almost three months, an aid group warned on Monday.
Oxfam said although a “meager” 34 aid trucks entered the devastated region, a combination of deliberate delays and systematic obstructions by the Israeli military meant that just 12 were able to actually provide food to Palestinians.
They added that Oxfam had been unable to provide aid in northern Gaza since 6 October and said since the beginning of December they had been receiving calls from vulnerable people trapped in homes and shelters that had completely run out of food and water.
Oxfam said that in one week last month three trucks were allowed to distribute aid to Gaza, carrying ready-to-eat rations, wheat flour and water to Mahdia al-Shawa school in Beit Hanoun, which was sheltering displaced families.
“While the aid was distributed, within hours soldiers and quadcopters fired on the school and people were ordered to leave,” Oxfam said.
“The next day the Israeli military returned and shelled the school, burning down the buildings.”
More than 45,000 people have been killed since the Zionist regime began its assault on Gaza in October 2023. The vast majority of the population has been forcibly displaced while the north has been depopulated.
The commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said that all of the rules of war are being violated in the Gaza Strip by the occupation state of Israel, the Palestinian Information Centre has reported. 
The Palestinians in Gaza have been facing the Zionist regime’s ongoing genocide for more than 14 months.
“All wars have rules,” said Philippe Lazzarini on social media on Sunday. “All of those rules have been broken.”
The UNRWA chief pointed out that attacks on schools and hospitals have been commonplace. “The world must not become numb.”
Civilians across Gaza need a respite, he added, calling for a ceasefire and not wasting any more time.
Oxfam staff also said this week that humanitarian access across the entire enclave was at “an all-time low”.
They said winter weather conditions were expected to affect more than 1.6 million people living in makeshift shelters, including more than 500,000 in “flood-prone areas”.
Meanwhile, starvation is becoming a reality for millions in Gaza.