The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reported that Israel prevented the arrival of a United Nations shipment containing food supplies to 1.1 million residents of Gaza who are suffering from hunger.

UNRWA said in a statement on the X platform: "A shipment of food supplies sufficient for 1.1 million people is stuck at an Israeli port due to recent restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities."

The statement added that 1,049 containers containing rice, flour, chickpeas, sugar, and cooking oil are stuck, while families in Gaza face hunger.

The Israeli army continues military operations against the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian Hamas movement, which controls the strip, announced the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

Hamas launched thousands of rockets from Gaza into Israel and its forces stormed Israeli settlements adjacent to the strip, causing the deaths of about 1,200 Israelis, as well as the capture of about 250 others.

The battles included a 7-day truce, reached through Egyptian, Qatari, and American mediation, which witnessed the exchange of prisoners among women and children, and the entry of agreed-upon amounts of aid into the Gaza Strip, before military operations resumed on December 1, 2023.

Israel responded by officially declaring war on the Gaza Strip, starting with destructive bombings, then ground military operations inside the strip, resulting in the martyrdom of more than 28 thousand people and the injury of more than 67 thousand among the strip's population.

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