AMMAN — The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) aid Saturday that its warehouses in Jordan and Egypt are “fully stocked” with food, medical supplies, and hygiene items, enough to fill 6,000 trucks bound for the Gaza Strip.

 

In a statement posted on the platform X, UNRWA said that averting the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza requires the urgent entry of massive quantities of aid, facilitated through the United Nations, including its own agency.

 

"The scale of the crisis demands immediate and sustained humanitarian access," the agency said, urging Israel to allow the delivery of these supplies without delay.

 

UNRWA has repeatedly called for unimpeded humanitarian corridors to war-torn Gaza to ensure that essential assistance reaches civilians trapped by the conflict.

 

The United Nations on Friday officially declared a famine in Gaza, the first time it has done so in the Middle East, with experts warning 500,000 people face "catastrophic" hunger.

 

"It is a famine: the Gaza famine," said Tom Fletcher, the UN's emergency relief coordinator.

 

He blamed Israel, accusing it of "systematic obstruction" of aid deliveries to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.

 

The assessment of famine was made by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC), a coalition of monitors tasked by the UN to warn of impending crises.