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LOGIN SUBSCRIBE * Premium * Design * Tech * Work Life * News * Impact * Podcasts * Video * INNOVATION FESTIVAL | FastCo Works * Capital One * IBM * SAP advertisement 01-09-2024IMPACT HOW UNICEF GETS FOOD AND TENTS INTO GAZA Before the war, around 500 aid trucks entered Gaza each day. As the war stretches on, aid is even more necessary—but much harder to deliver. [Photo: © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba] * * * * * * * * BY Adele Peters4 minute read When UNICEF trucks bring supplies like water and food to the Gaza border, there isn’t always enough fuel available inside Gaza to make the next stage of the delivery—so the U.N. agency sometimes has to turn to carts pulled by donkeys. Ongoing fuel shortages are just one of the many challenges that humanitarian agencies are facing as they work in Gaza. And the situation keeps getting worse: A recent U.N. report says that around half of the population, or nearly a million people, are at risk of starvation. Some 90% of Gazans report that they regularly go without food for a day. Young displaced Palestinians walk in front of a donkey cart in a tent city built by Egypt and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society to shelter thousands of Palestinians who fled their homes due to Israeli bombardment. [Photo: Mohammed Talatene/picture alliance/Getty Images] “Children that we’ve spoken to who are waiting in line [for food] say that they’ve been waiting two, three, four hours,” says Tess Ingram, a spokesperson for UNICEF, the U.N. agency that focuses on aid for children. “And if they don’t get anything in that food line with the hundreds of other people waiting there, their family won’t eat that day. Generally what they return with is a piece or two of pita bread, often to be shared amongst a whole family. Food is incredibly scarce.” Before the war began three months ago, when Hamas attacked Israel and killed and abducted hundreds of Israelis—followed by retaliatory attacks by Israel—Gaza was already in crisis. A blockade that heavily restricts people and goods from crossing the border has been in place since Hamas took power in 2007, and most residents already relied on humanitarian aid. Around 500 aid trucks entered each day. When the war started, no aid could enter for two weeks. Then, when deliveries resumed, far fewer trucks were allowed to enter, even as most Palestinians were forced to leave their homes and the need for aid grew dramatically. On one recent weekday, only 177 trucks made it through. Subscribe to the Compass newsletter.Fast Company's trending stories delivered to you daily * This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. SIGN UP Privacy Policy | Fast Company Newsletters [Photo: © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba] UNICEF sends planeloads of supplies from warehouses in Europe to Eqypt, where they’re loaded into trucks. Pallets are packed with children’s clothing, vitamins for pregnant women, snacks like Plumpy’Nut—a therapeutic food designed for children suffering from malnutrition—and other emergency goods, including tents and blankets. Some supplies, like hygiene kits with soap, towels, and diapers, are being procured in Eqypt or Jordan because it’s faster. At Rafah, an entry point to Gaza on the border with Egypt, Egyptian and Israeli officials inspect the goods. The same thing happens at another border crossing in Israel. Many items haven’t been allowed through. “We’ve had generators stuck in the screening area for weeks now, and pipes that we need to use to repair water systems, and construction materials for building more toilets,” Ingram says. In one area in southern Gaza where hundreds of thousands of people have fled, the U.N. estimates that there’s now only one toilet for every 700 people. The lack of sanitation is making it more likely that people get sick—and children who are simultaneously not getting enough food are at the most risk of dying from infections. Distribution of blankets [Photo: © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba] Humanitarian agencies face multiple other problems. Because of the danger from intense bombardment and active fighting, the U.N. has to limit the number of people who can work in Gaza, and those who are working can’t always get where they need to go. “We need safe humanitarian access to be able to do our job, and at the moment that is very difficult, particularly in the north,” Ingram says. Some roads have been destroyed, and others are blocked off. Beyond fuel shortages, aid agencies have a shortage of working trucks to make deliveries; new trucks aren’t allowed to enter. Separately, stores haven’t been able to get imported goods since the war started, putting even more pressure on the limited amount of aid that’s available. (UNICEF has been offering cash to families to buy supplies at markets, but there’s little available, and prices have surged.) Israeli soldiers have destroyed some farms and orchards, according to Human Rights Watch, and other farms can’t operate because of a lack of water or because farmers have been displaced, shrinking the amount of food available locally. [Photo: © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba] Phone and internet service has repeatedly been lost, both because of attacks on telecommunications equipment and because of fuel shortages. “You can imagine if we’re bringing medical supplies to a hospital, we need to be able to communicate with other colleagues, say [the World Health Organization] or even the hospital staff themselves, to say this is what we’ve got, and when we’ll be there,” Ingram says. On January 8, after international pressure, Israel announced that it was moving to a less intense phase of the war, and that it aimed to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza. (A government spokesperson separately told The New York Times that Israel is not restricting aid and blamed Hamas for hijacking aid deliveries.) “Ultimately, the scale of the needs in this situation and the challenges that are before us can really only be resolved by an end to the fighting,” Ingram says. “We cannot meet the humanitarian needs adequately in the current situation with these limitations.” The application deadline for Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards is Friday, December 6, at 11:59 p.m. PT. 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