Less than sixteen percent of agreed aid entering Gaza per day, report shows

Fewer than a hundred aid trucks operated by the United Nations and its partners have entered Gaza per day since a ceasefire commenced on 10 October, data analysed by AFP shows.

Israel authorised an average of 1,011 tonnes of aid - or 94 trucks - to enter Gaza from 10 October to 21 October, according to preliminary data from the UN. 

While this is an increase from the 700 tonnes (or 62 trucks) supplied daily by the UN and partner NGOs between 19 May and 9 October, it falls short of the 600 trucks daily agreed in the ceasefire agreement.

The data analysed by AFP is compiled by the UN's "2720 Mechanism for Gaza", which has monitored and tracked humanitarian aid entering Gaza since 19 May, the day after the end of Israel's two-month blockade of Gaza, which prevented humanitarian aid from entering.

The busiest day for humanitarian aid coming in through the UN2720 Mechanism was 16 October, with 206 trucks entering Gaza, the day after UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said that aid entering in the previous few days was "a fraction of what's needed", with just "tens of trucks on a good day rather than the hundreds of trucks required".

The International Court of Justice said on Wednesday that Israel was obliged to ease the passage of aid into famine-wracked Gaza, stressing it had to provide Palestinians with the "basic needs" to survive.