The United Nations uses a new land route to deliver food to northern Gaza

On Tuesday, the United Nations used a new land route to deliver food to the northern Gaza Strip, for the first time in three weeks.

On Tuesday, the United Nations used a new land route to deliver food to the northern Gaza Strip, for the first time in three weeks.

Jamie McGoldrick, the United Nations aid coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territories, said that a World Food Program convoy used an Israeli military road extending along the Gaza border fence to reach the northern Gaza Strip.

Shatha Al-Mughrabi, spokeswoman for the World Food Program, said that the program was able to deliver food aid sufficient for 25,000 people to Gaza City in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

This was the first shipment sent by the program to the northern Gaza Strip since February 20, and Al-Maghrabi added that this proves that transporting food by land is still possible.

Al-Mughrabi expressed her hope to expand the scope of this aid, stressing the need for its delivery to be regular and consistent, especially to the residents of northern Gaza.

She added that the program only needs direct entry points to the north of the Strip.

The United Nations warned that at least 576,000 people in Gaza, about a quarter of the Strip's population, are on the brink of famine.

As a result of the war and Israeli restrictions, the residents of Gaza, especially the Gaza and North governorates, are on the verge of famine, in light of a severe scarcity of food, water, medicine and fuel supplies, with the displacement of about two million Palestinians from the Strip, which has been besieged by Israel for 17 years.