UN expert Francesca Albanese at the Cannes Festival called for Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza completely instead of allowing aid to trickly into the war-torn territory.
“They must lift the blockade,” the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories said.
The Israeli defence ministry said 107 humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza on Thursday, whereas the United Nations used to bring in 500 to 600 lorry-loads per day on average during a six-week ceasefire that broke down in March.
But Albanese said even that amount would not be enough, after UN agencies warned a two-month siege had left its population of more than two million people on the brink of famine.
“Even if we return now to the 500 trucks per day… it wouldn’t be sufficient because there are no stocks and the people in Gaza have nothing,” she told AFP on the sidelines of the Cannes festival.
