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Aid deliveries for Gaza: Rotkreuz demands immediate opening of the borders!
The article reports on the critical humanitarian location in the Gaza Strip, coordination of help through the Red Cross and the effects of the blockade.
Aid deliveries for Gaza: Rotkreuz demands immediate opening of the borders!
The humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip reaches alarming dimensions, while the civilian population suffers from catastrophic conditions. According to reports from [Kleinezeitung.at], the people in Gaza have increasingly come under pressure because they live in an environment characterized by destruction. People not only suffer from a lack of food and clean water, but also from freezing temperatures that lead to over 100 toddlers and babies. The disaster manager Högl, who is stationed in Cairo and coordinates the aid deliveries, impressively reminds that any further delay in help could plunge hundreds of thousands of people into the abyss.
In order to meet the civilian population, sometimes desperate, the German Red Cross (DRK) from Leipzig/Halle Airport started several transports with urgently needed aid goods. This initiative, as reports [drk.de], is particularly important because the emergency could tighten in the upcoming winter. Among other things, the aid deliveries contain family tents and winter equipment to defy the extreme temperatures. In the past few months, the DRK has repeatedly sent relief supplies to the region to relieve the need, but the situation remains tense.
Challenges of the aid organizations
The situation on site is difficult by a persistent blockade and technical controls at the border crossings that cost the valuable time to provide vital help. Högl emphasizes that thousands of trucks with auxiliary goods are waiting in the storage rooms to get into the Gaza Strip. The cuts in international aid organizations, as well as the limited functionality of the UNRWA, also endanger the human support for the suffering civilian population. The security of the humanitarian helpers is also extremely at risk, with 300 helpers killed since the beginning of the conflict. The urgency of a peace plan and unimpeded access to humanitarian aid is becoming increasingly clear to prevent worse things.