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The first trucks of humanitarian aid arrived in the northern Gaza Strip, and Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that the trucks loaded with flour arrived in the Kuwait Roundabout area in the center of Gaza City, in addition to Salah al-Din Street in the northern Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al-Sharif added that the aid delivery process was safe, in light of prior coordination that took place between a number of tribal notables, mukhtars, and UN officials.

The correspondent pointed out that the aid was unloaded at one of the centers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) east of Jabalia, to be divided into small quantities in preparation for distributing it to the largest number of needy people.

This step comes at a time when the northern Gaza Strip is suffering from a severe famine that has so far resulted in dozens of deaths, most of them children.

Majed Faraj cries silently.


Important circular - to citizens in Gaza City regarding heading to the Kuwait Roundabout and gathering on Salah al-Din Road while aid trucks are passing by.

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The role of security in Gaza

To secure the entry of the first aid into the northern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian security forces in Gaza issued a circular to citizens to secure and ensure the safe arrival of aid and to preserve the safety of the population. The instructions included preventing people from going to the Kuwait Roundabout in the center of Gaza City to receive aid, as the place was targeted by the occupation forces several times, as demanded. The circular prohibited gathering on Salah al-Din Street while aid was arriving. The circular warned against violating the instructions under penalty of accountability, and called on citizens in Gaza to be responsible and not participate in spreading chaos and starving the Palestinian people.

In this context, the founder and head of the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory, Rami Abdo, said in a tweet on the

He added that this scene confirms the great failure of the occupation and its inability except to commit massacres and target innocent civilians.

He pointed out that for more than 160 days, the occupation army has been targeting members of the police and civil services in Gaza to create a state of chaos and cast doubt on its control.

During the past few days, the occupation forces targeted queues waiting for aid in Gaza and other areas in the Strip, resulting in the death of dozens.

Yesterday, the government media office in Gaza called on all countries of the world to open the land crossings and “immediately bring hundreds of thousands of tons of accumulated aid to our honorable Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, in conjunction with the holy month of Ramadan, and in the face of famine.”

Since the seventh of last October, Israel has continued its aggression against Gaza, which has so far led to the martyrdom of more than 31,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure and service facilities and the displacement and starvation of the population.

Stampede victims

Earlier Saturday, an Al Jazeera correspondent reported that one Palestinian was killed and others were injured as a result of a stampede to obtain aid dropped by planes in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, while international relief organizations continue to sound the alarm due to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the besieged Strip.

With the markets in the northern Gaza Strip devoid of the most basic necessities, warnings are escalating of a real famine lurking among the population.

Secretary-General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Jagan Chapagin, described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as beyond catastrophic, and said that civilians are facing an unprecedented level of humiliation, misery and suffering in Gaza.

He pointed out that countless people do not have anything to break their fast during the month of Ramadan, explaining that the plight of the hostages represents a serious humanitarian concern, and called for the necessity of their release.

UNRWA reported that one in three children under two years of age in northern Gaza suffers from malnutrition.

The agency added on the “X” platform that malnutrition is spreading rapidly among children, and that it is reaching unprecedented levels in Gaza, stressing that famine is looming on the horizon.

Source: Al Jazeera