“The world has to do more for Gaza,” the United Nations said after the arrival of humanitarian aid in dribs and drabs to the besieged city. The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, has confirmed the entry of 14 more trucks this Sunday with humanitarian aid for the Strip. In addition, there will be a third delivery with fifteen trucks this Monday, as reported by Reuters.

However, it is still a very low figure for the entire population and taking into account the collapse of the city and the hundreds of trucks waiting in Rafah to enter. Meanwhile, the Israeli Army has bombed 320 targets of the Islamist group Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the last 24 hours, intensifying its attacks that have hit civilians in Gaza – both north and south – and have killed 400 people.

This Sunday five UN agencies have published a joint statement in which they assure that the aid that entered Gaza this Saturday “It’s just a small beginning and it’s far from enough.“, so they have called for a ceasefire and safe access for civilians to save lives and prevent further suffering. “Gaza was already in a desperate humanitarian situation before the recent hostilities. Now it is catastrophic. The world has to do more,” they said in the statement.

This statement has been issued by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Program (PMA) and the World Health Organization (WHO). In it, they explain that the “first, but limited delivery” that came in on Saturday will supply “an urgent need for the more than hundreds of thousands of civilians, mainly women and children, who have had their water, food, medicines, fuel and other essentials,” UN agencies have said, “but it is only a small beginning and is very far from being enough“.

This Sunday, the United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, confirmed the entry of 14 more trucks. “Today 14 more trucks entered Gaza through from the Rafah border crossing with the help of the Egyptian Red Crescent and the UN”, Griffiths has published on his account on the social network humanitarian aid.” “I am particularly grateful to the aid workers on the Palestinian side who have immediately launched to unload the goods despite the risks. They are true heroes. They also need protection,” he stressed.

The trucks transport medicines, health supplies and food, explained the head of the Egyptian Red Crescent for North Sinai, Jhaled Zayed, quoted by the state news newspaper ‘Al Ahram’. In reality, the trucks do not enter the Gaza Strip, but rather they unload their goods between the Egyptian and Palestinian gates and then those goods They are loaded back onto Palestinian trucks. Health sources cited by Al Jazeera have highlighted that the shipment contains important medical supplies, such as antiseptic, which has been in short supply in recent days due to its use on wounded people. However, as the US and Israel agreed, there is not a single drop of fuelsomething essential for Gaza hospitals that are on the “brink of collapse”, according to UNRWA.

More than 1.6 million people are in critical need of humanitarian aid in Gaza, where almost half of the population are children, as well as a large number of pregnant women and elderly people. Furthermore, the constant bombing for two weeks have left much of the civil infrastructure damaged or destroyed, including shelters, medical centers and water, sanitation and electricity systems. The agencies have warned that “time is running out before mortality skyrockets due to the spread of disease and lack of health capacity.”