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IDF: UN and Aid Groups Failing to Distribute 35 Percent of Aid Brought into Gaza
(Times of Israel) Jeremy Sharon - The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) told Israel's High Court of Justice on Sunday that UN and humanitarian organizations had failed to collect and distribute 35% of the aid brought into Gaza by Israel last month. The head of COGAT, Maj.-Gen. Ghassan Alian, rejected claims that the humanitarian aid delivery corridor from the Kerem Shalom crossing to central Gaza was in any way dangerous, stating that 150 trucks from the private sector use it every day. He also said there is no humanitarian crisis in northern Gaza in recent months and that assistance coming via Jordan and the Israeli port of Ashdod was flowing freely. He added that Gaza's water and fuel requirements were being met, and that all requests for the entry of medicine and medical equipment were approved by Israel. Alian said that there were currently 11 field hospitals operating in the IDF-designated humanitarian zone in southwest Gaza, alongside ten regular hospitals still operating in Gaza.