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In distinction, UN knowledge reveals {that a} whole of 533 help vans entered Gaza within the three days after Saturday. Extra broadly, UN knowledge present no improve within the every day common of vans heading to Gaza within the first week of April in comparison with the earlier week.
The explanations for the discrepancy are unclear, however are resulting from completely different strategies utilized by Israel and the United Nations to trace the vans, mentioned Jens Larke, a spokesman for the U.N. humanitarian workplace.
Mr Larke mentioned the vans, that are checked and counted by Israel on the two functioning border crossings, normally enter Gaza solely half-full, as a result of Israeli inspectors prohibit a few of their contents. As soon as inside Gaza, they’re unloaded, repacked as full vans and despatched to UN-run warehouses, which rely the variety of full vans arriving, probably decreasing the quantity. She goes.
Different problems additionally imply vans typically don't cross by way of the crossing and arrive on the warehouse on the identical day, he mentioned, that means the every day numbers of crossings and warehouses typically don't match.
In a press release on Wednesday, COGAT criticized the UN's “flawed counting methodology”, which it known as “an try to cover its logistics distribution difficulties”.
Earlier guarantees by Israel to extend help haven’t resulted in a lot of a rise in deliveries. Beneath US strain in mid-December, Israel reopened one crossing into Gaza, Kerem Shalom, for help vans, and promised to permit entry to 200 vans per day. However help companies say strict Israeli oversight has saved the numbers far decrease than obligatory.
And Mr. Larke and different help officers mentioned enormous challenges stay in delivering help inside Gaza, notably within the north, the place Israel denies entry to UNRWA, the primary United Nations reduction company working within the space. Is.