The CUMER Central International Organization announced today, Thursday, that all of its humanitarian operations had been arrested in the Gaza Strip, due to the exhaustion of food and cooking fuel stocks, following the Israeli blocking since the beginning of March.
The rescue organization said in a statement that she no longer had the supplies necessary to cook meals or prepare bread in Gaza, after providing over the past 18 months more than 130 million meals and 26 million breads for trapped residents.
She pointed out that her trucks loaded with food supplies and cooking fuel are still stuck on the border in Egypt, Jordan and Israel since March, because of the occupation authorities prohibiting the entry of the sector’s assistance, which is inhabited by more than two million Palestinians.
“Our trucks are ready to enter, but they cannot move without a license. It is necessary to allow the flow of humanitarian aid,” said chief Jose Andres.
The organization added that its kitchens on the ground no longer contain sufficient ingredients to continue the work, noting that it provided daily meals to hundreds of thousands of residents. In light of the current situation, only drinking water always provides.
Occupation authorities accuse the Islamic resistance movement (Hamas) of transforming part of humanitarian aid for military purposes, which is denied by international organizations, while the inhabitants of Gaza face a serious food shortage, in the midst of the exacerbations of the famine.
The Coordination of the United Nations of Humanitarian Affairs said that more than 2.3 million people in the sector suffered from severe food insecurity, while Israel has closed all Gaza gas passages to food, medicines and supplies since the second in March.
This happens at a time when the humanitarian disaster is getting lost in the strip, because the Israeli war which continued since October 7, 2023 resulted in death and injury of more than 171,000 people, most of them children and women, in addition to more than 11,000 missing.