How much humanitarian aid is getting into Gaza? The exact answer can be hard to know
The need for humanitarian aid in Gaza is enormous, but trying to decipher how much aid is getting into the territory and where it's going can be tricky.
TEL AVIV, Israel - The war between Israel and Hamas has created a spiraling humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
The numbers provided by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) detail the extent of the misery:
- 1.7 million people displaced
- 2.2 million at "imminent risk of famine"
- Over 60% of housing in Gaza damaged
- Roughly 17,000 children unaccompanied or separated from their parents
With over a million people now sheltering in Rafah, in southern Gaza, and only one third of the water pipes coming out of Israel currently operational, according to OCHA, the need for rapid humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave is growing by the day.
Roughly 500 trucks
