GENEVA: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called on the United Nations on Wednesday to do more to get desperately needed aid into war-battered Gaza.
“The amount of humanitarian aid sent to Gaza is very small and almost zero, and it is necessary for the United Nations to take immediate and serious action in this regard,” Amir-Abdollahian said in a meeting in Geneva with UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths.
Trucks carrying the first delivery of fuel to Gaza since the war began on October 7 crossed from Egypt on Wednesday but the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said it was “not at all enough”.
Amir-Abdollahian has been in Geneva since Tuesday for talks with UN and other officials on aid deliveries into Gaza.
In his talks with Griffiths, he called for “strong and urgent management by the UN to remove the blockage at the Rafah border crossing and get humanitarian aid into Gaza”.
The Palestinian enclave has endured more than five weeks of Israeli air and ground attack that have killed 11,320 people, mostly civilians, according to its health ministry.
Israel has laid siege to Gaza and halted all aid deliveries from its territory, leaving the Rafah border crossing from Egypt as the only access point for humanitarian relief for the hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced inside the enclave. — AFP
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