{"id":74975,"date":"2025-05-20T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=74975"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:24:35","slug":"un-has-permission-for-100-more-aid-trucks-to-enter-gaza-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/un-has-permission-for-100-more-aid-trucks-to-enter-gaza-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UN has permission for 100 more aid trucks to enter Gaza, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (REUTERS): The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/world-leaders-adopt-doha-political-declaration-as-fifth-united-nations-conference-on-least-developed-countries-concludes\/\">United Nations<\/a> has received permission from Israel for about 100 more aid trucks to enter Gaza on Tuesday, a spokesperson for its humanitarian office said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have requested and received approval for more trucks to enter today, many more than were approved yesterday,\u201d Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN humanitarian office, told a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-launches-8bn-flood-aid-appeal-at-geneva-donors-moot\/\">Geneva<\/a> press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to specify how many, he said \u201caround 100\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After an 11-week Israeli blockade, Israel cleared nine trucks of aid on Monday to enter Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, although Laerke said just five of those entered Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next step is to collect them, and then they will be distributed through the existing system, the one that has proven itself,\u201d said Laerke, adding that those trucks contained baby food and nutritional products for children.<\/p>\n<p>Malnutrition rates in Gaza have risen during the Israeli blockade and could rise exponentially if food shortages continue, a health official at the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, said at the same briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have data until end of April and it shows malnutrition on the rise,\u201d Akihiro Seita, UNRWA Director of Health, told a Geneva press briefing. \u201cAnd then the worry is that if the current food shortage continues, it will exponentially increase, and then get beyond our control.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (REUTERS): The United Nations has received permission from Israel for about 100 more aid trucks to enter Gaza on Tuesday, a spokesperson for its humanitarian office said. \u201cWe have requested and received approval for more trucks to enter today, many more than were approved yesterday,\u201d Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN humanitarian office, told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":63145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10125,3137,28867],"class_list":["post-74975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-gaza","tag-un","tag-aid-trucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74976,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74975\/revisions\/74976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}