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Trucks🚚 carrying #UNHCR relief kits push through floodwaters & mud after crossing the Adré border from Chad to East #Darfur🇸🇩. 🌧Heavy rains make travel nearly impossible, but cross-border access remains a vital lifeline for millions displaced, facing cholera & food insecurity.

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The National Context

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🇺🇳UN: Aid Efforts Expanding, But Gaza Still Faces Huge Gaps Under the ceasefire terms, at least 600 aid trucks were meant to enter Gaza daily — but Israel continues to block most shipments and only allow a trickle. On Wednesday, just 127 UN-coordinated trucks were allowed through the Kerem Shalom and Kissufim crossings, carrying food, tents, medical supplies, and 340,000 litres of diesel. Five UN-led missions also collected medical equipment, insulin, and cholera kits. The UN says humanitarian operations are scaling up under its 60-day response plan, with agencies now distributing over one million hot meals daily across the Strip. In northern Gaza, six UN-supported bakeries have resumed production and families are receiving food parcels with rice, canned goods, and cooking oil. Since the October 10 ceasefire, more than 20 new nutrition sites have opened, bringing the total to 150. Over 400 sites were operational before Israel’s total siege. Mobile teams providing health and nutrition support have doubled to 20, reaching remote and devastated areas. This week, partners delivered therapeutic food for 1,200 malnourished children and 32,000 jars of baby food for 760 infants. Relief groups have also distributed 600,000 diapers, 11,000 jerry cans, 5,800 hygiene kits, 3,000 buckets, and 280 disability kits to displaced families. Over 140 water tanks have been moved into Gaza to expand community water points. More than 435,000 people have moved north since the ceasefire, many living in unsafe makeshift sites. The UN urged Israel to open more crossings and allow NGOs direct access, stressing that “more is needed and more can be done” to meet Gaza’s immense humanitarian needs. 🎥 Gaza Humanitarian Aid Coordinator Eyad Amawi told Drop Site that conditions remain dire in Gaza, with only about 90 trucks entering daily as Israel continues to engineer famine. He added: “There is no real tangible change in the number of tents and mobile homes — both of those are very vital to save our people’s lives before the winter.”

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🔴 REPORT | 11 Days After Ceasefire Declaration Only 520 Trucks of Food Have Entered Gaza: WFP 🔑 Gaza Aid Assessment: 🇺🇳 World Food Program says aid deliveries into Gaza are increasing but remain far below target, with just two crossings open. No crossings are open into the famine-hit north, and Rafah remains completely closed. 📊 Aid delivery: Since the ceasefire began on October 10, the UN said overall it has collected 10,638 metric tonnes of essential supplies through the UN mechanism. ▪️ WFP spokesperson Abeer Etefa said at a separate Geneva briefing that the deliveries remain far below target: Since the ceasefire on October 10, just 520 trucks have entered Gaza carrying 6,700 tonnes of food—enough for about 500,000 people for two weeks. ▪️Daily deliveries average 750 tonnes of food aid, well short of the 2,000-tonne target needed to meet basic demand. ▪️ Limited reach and urgent needs: WFP has 26 active food-distribution points—it used to have 400 and is rapidly aiming for 145—for now, mostly in central and southern Gaza. It also supports nine bakeries serving bread to half a million people. The agency says up to 30 bakeries and wider wheat-flour access are needed, while digital vouchers are being issued to help the most vulnerable, including women-headed households and the elderly. ▪️From October 17-19, only 303 trucks carrying 6,455 pallets were offloaded—two-thirds food, one-fifth water and hygiene items. ▪️🇵🇸 Gaza authorities earlier said on average 89 trucks had entered Gaza daily over 11 days since October 10, as opposed to the 600 mandated under the ceasefire deal. ▪️”To be able to get to this scale-up, we have to use every border crossing point right now,” WFP’s Etefa said, noting that only Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) and Kissufim are operating. ▪️UN on the ground: More than 15,000 households in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis received parcels with rice, lentils, chickpeas, tomato paste, and sunflower oil. 21 partner groups provided nearly 944,000 cooked meals through 178 community kitchens, a 40% increase in three weeks. Video: UN Briefing. October 21, 2025. Geneva.

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I have just completed a trip to the Rafah crossing with European Parliament colleagues from Renew Europe - the first Parliamentary delegation to secure access to the area. The purpose of the visit was to see first hand the international humanitarian effort that is underway and the difficulties that are being faced with getting the aid into Gaza. On the way there we passed hundreds of trucks, for as far as the eye could see, carrying basic humanitarian supplies, all being held up and waiting to cross into Gaza. Everything that goes across has to be cleared by the Israeli government who have listed thousands of items, such as solar panels, water tubes and batteries, as being 'dual use' i.e capable of military use. Both EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid 🇪🇺 & Irish Aid are very much present and waiting to cross. I saw a number of trucks with family tents donated by the Irish Government at a logistics hub near Rafah. The tent poles are removed as they are on the 'Dual list' and are deemed capable of military operation. I expected the crossing itself to be chaotic however it was weirdly quiet - which is worrying. What should be a bustling humanitarian hub with non-stop traffic and activity, consisted only of the occasional truck getting through - one passed through in the hour we were there. At the border, people we spoke to said that our visit and the fact that IDF know about it means that no bombing would occur until we had left. When the president of the ICRC visited recently - bombing resumed 30 mins after the visit ended. Bombings, gunfire & drone activity is a daily reality for people who are working at the Rafah crossing. People who are helping evacuate the wounded, the sick and dual nationals wishing to leave are in danger every day. Humanitarian access is a basic requirement for any conflict. It is truly astonishing to think that Rafah is the only crossing point. There would be more truck movements at a busy supermarket in Ireland and yet, behind the gates at Rafah, 2.3 million people are suffering for want of food, water, medicine & fuel. I have no doubt that Israel has made the strategic decision to deliberately frustrate the international humanitarian effort. I will be on This Week RTÉ after 1pm to discuss this.

Barry Andrews MEP

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🔴 UN: Humanitarian Teams Scaling Up in Gaza, Access Still Severely Restricted Despite a fragile ceasefire, the UN says aid delivery to Gaza remains heavily constrained by Israeli control of crossings and visa restrictions on international NGOs. Here’s what to know: ▪️ 1. Rafah Still Closed: UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher, traveling from Cairo to Rafah, called the crossing a vital “lifeline” but supplies from Egypt must still detour through Israeli inspection at Kerem Shalom, blocking direct access. He urged all crossings to open for a “massive scale-up.” ▪️ 2. NGO Access Blocked: OCHA said Israel continues to deny visas and shipment authorizations for many international NGOs, while UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric confirmed that “a number of NGOs are no longer certified to work in Gaza.” The suspensions have forced UN agencies to absorb most relief operations, relying on local groups already decimated by war. Fletcher said humanitarian teams have been “ready for this moment” for weeks but cannot deliver aid at scale until international NGOs are allowed back in to provide logistics, staffing, and field distribution. ▪️ 3. Aid Efforts Under Ceasefire: On Tuesday, 21 UN partners served 960,000 meals through 175 kitchens. Supported bakeries produced 100,000 bread bundles. UNICEF distributed 1 million diapers, while WHO sent three truckloads of surgical supplies to Gaza City’s central pharmacy. ▪️ 4. Hospitals Expanding: WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros said the supplies will serve 10,000 people. Two new operating theatres are now functioning at Al-Shifa Hospital, with plans to add 120 beds for trauma and orthopedic care. ▪️ 5. Clearing Access Roads: UN teams have cleared main roads to Erez and Zikim crossings in the north, preparing for potential reopening. They are now assessing the long-closed Salah al-Din road. ▪️ 6. Destroyed Neighborhoods: UN staff visited Sheikh Radwan in Gaza City, where returnees described urgent needs for water, shelter, food, and debris removal. Families across Gaza are living in tents or clearing rubble from damaged homes. ▪️ 7. Aid Pipeline Expands: Through the UN 2720 Mechanism, nearly 200,000 metric tons of supplies have Israeli clearance to enter. Goods now staged in Jordan, Cyprus, Israel, and the West Bank include wheat flour, food parcels, hygiene kits, tents, and medical equipment. ▪️3,500 Tons Delivered So Far: Between Friday and Tuesday, UN teams collected 3,500 tons of essential supplies from the Kissufim and Kerem Shalom crossings. Deliveries continue each day where access is permitted. The UN said it does not yet have verified truck counts but expects to provide its own data soon.

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S2 Underground

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Canadian citizen Adi Vital-Kaploun (33) was sheltering in her home in Kibbutz Holit when Hamas terrorists attacked. They murdered her in front of her sons, Negev (4) and Eshel (4.5 months), and booby-trapped her body in case anyone tried to move it. Six terrorists then broke into Avital Aladjem’s house next door, where she was hiding with another neighbor, US citizen Hayim Katzman (32). The terrorists murdered Hayim and took Avital hostage, and used her, Negev, and Eshel as human shields as they walked through the kibbutz, setting houses and cars on fire. The terrorists then forced Avital to walk to Gaza carrying Eshel while one of the terrorists carried Negev, who had been shot in the leg. For some inexplicable reason, after crossing the Gaza border, the terrorists abandoned them, and Avital managed to make her way back to Holit with the children, hiding from terrorists along the way. There, she reunited the children with their father, and they were evacuated to safety. Hamas tried to exploit the Vital-Kaploun children to promote a blatantly false “humanitarian” narrative. They shared a propaganda video of the two traumatized children being “cared for” by Hamas terrorists, after their mother had been murdered in front of them and before they were kidnapped. Hamas also tried to exploit a video of Avital and the children making their way back from Gaza, claiming they freed a mother and her children out of the goodness of their hearts. In reality, they murdered the children’s mother in front of them and kidnapped the children with their neighbor, and likely abandoned them after getting tired of carrying the screaming children.

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🛻 Gaza | Humanitarian Aid Collapse Israel is exploiting the global focus on the war with Iran to deepen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as aid deliveries fall to just 30% of required levels and the transfer of critically ill patients out of the enclave has completely halted, according to a report by Ultra Palestine. 🔸The report cites Amjad al-Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza, who said Israel has kept the Rafah crossing completely closed since the war with Iran began, while the Kerem Shalom crossing is operating only partially. 🔸Around 200 trucks—carrying both commercial goods and humanitarian aid—enter Gaza daily through Kerem Shalom, he said, a third of the 600 trucks per day envisioned under the ceasefire agreement. 🔸Al-Shawa said aid had already been falling in recent months, with February shipments lower than January and December. The reduction has deepened shortages of food and medicine, including protein-rich foods and vegetables. Cooking gas imports were also halted after the Iran war began and only recently resumed in limited quantities of 4-5 trucks per day, about half previous levels. 🔸The report also cites Raed al-Nems, spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent in Gaza, who said Rafah’s closure has halted all medical evacuations. A mechanism discussed before the escalation envisioned 50 patients per day leaving Gaza for treatment abroad, but in practice Israel had allowed only 5–10 patients daily, occasionally up to 20. Now no sick or wounded Palestinians are being allowed to leave. 🔸Gaza’s Health Ministry said around 350,000 people in the enclave suffer from chronic illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. At least 18,000 patients urgently need treatment outside Gaza, and the number of wounded during the genocidal assault has surpassed 170,000. 🔸The UN’s humanitarian office also warned that continued closure of crossings is severely undermining aid operations in the territory. About 400,000 people received food rations this month, but distributions were cut in half after aid trucks were turned back at the Kerem Shalom crossing, the only operational entry point for humanitarian cargo. 🔸OCHA also warned of a growing number of hospital generator failures due to shortages of spare parts and lubricating oil. Health officials have reported nearly 23,000 suspected infection cases last month, linked to insect infestations in displacement sites, while supplies of hygiene kits, insecticides, and scabies treatment remain critically low.

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In Sudan’s devastating conflict, where the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fuel a brutal cycle of violence, both accused of war crimes and genocide by the US in 2025, the United Arab Emirates stands as a steadfast pillar of hope. While SAF tightens its hold on Port Sudan and RSF besieges El Fasher, displacing 13 million and pushing millions toward famine, the UAE has delivered USD 3.95 billion in aid to Sudan and its neighbors from 2014 to 2025, undeterred by baseless claims from the Muslim Brotherhood and its proxies. With 162 flights and one ship, the UAE has delivered 12,710 tonnes of vital supplies: 6,388 tonnes of food and 280 tonnes of medical aid for Sudan’s conflict-ravaged communities, 5,542 tonnes for Chad’s refugees, 200 tonnes plus a medical center, five wells, and ten health facilities for Uganda, and 300 tonnes for South Sudan’s desperate displaced. This is not posturing; it’s a lifeline for millions caught in the crossfire. To the Brotherhood and its allies, including Turkey, who cast accusations of UAE interference while arming SAF and prolonging Sudan’s chaos: your claims collapse against the UAE’s towering humanitarian record. Since 2023, USD 681.8 million has sustained over 2 million lives, with a bold USD 200 million pledged in Addis Ababa in February 2025. Two field hospitals in Chad have treated 90,889 patients, a new hospital rises in South Sudan’s Madhol, and 127 health facilities across 14 Sudanese states thrive with UAE support. Add USD 70 million to UN agencies, including 25 million to WFP, 20 million to UNHCR, and 8 million to WHO, plus USD 30 million for neighboring countries, USD 10.25 million for Sudanese refugee women, and USD 4 million for education in Chad, and the UAE’s priorities shine through. We condemn SAF’s aid blockades and RSF’s atrocities, advocate for civilian governance, and reject unfounded allegations of arms or gold dealings. While you fuel division, the UAE builds hope with hospitals, not headlines, for Sudan’s people. Humanity is our mission, and we will not falter.

Rauda Altenaiji

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⚡️NEW: Gazan Communities Coordinate Aid Delivery Without Israeli Involvement In a notable development, local communities across Gaza today successfully organized the safe delivery of aid—without Israeli oversight—by using grassroots protection mechanisms to shield convoys from looting, chaos, and Israeli fire. ➤ Gaza’s Health Ministry confirmed that trucks carrying desperately needed medicine and medical supplies entered through the Kissufim crossing (also known as al‑Karara, the border crossing point between Israel and southern Gaza located east of Khan Younis and Deir al‑Balah) and reached warehouses and Nasser Hospital, marking one of few successful deliveries in months. ➤ In southern Gaza, the Supreme Council for Tribal Affairs praised tribal leaders and families for “standing as a shield that protects people before their place,” imposing short curfews to ensure safe passage of aid convoys. In a public message, the council called this protection a “historic stance recorded in the purest pages of loyalty and manliness.” ➤ In northern Gaza, community leaders and mukhtars blocked civilian access to the main aid route on al-Rashid Street to prevent stampedes and theft. The path—often crowded with starving civilians—was guarded by volunteers, allowing trucks to safely reach UN warehouses in Gaza City for the first time in days. ➤ A local source told Drop Site: “This is being done with the help of popular protection from Gazan families in the face of armed gangs and hungry looters to allow a more fair and dignified distribution mechanism.” ➤ Journalist Abd Sabbah and Translating Falasteen (Palestine) reported that around 10 trucks arrived safely today. A video by @amer_elsultan shows the peaceful arrival. The local journalist noted: “There is absolutely no need for Israel to be involved in any kind of aid distribution.” 🔴 At least 14 people were killed near GHF aid distribution sites this morning as Israel continues to block established UN/NGO channels for distribution. Since launch, GHF massacres have killed 549, injured 4066, and left 39 Palestinians missing.

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