Israel temporarily authorizes the entry of humanitarian aid into northern Gaza

The Israeli government's security cabinet approved this Saturday night the temporary entry of humanitarian aid into the northern Gaza Strip, a densely populated area where virtually none of it reaches, according to several Israeli media outlets and confirmed to EFE by a government source.

According to the source, the task would be to authorize the entry of trucks into that area, and those in charge would be the international organizations that currently do so, that is, various UN agencies, some countries, and NGOs.

The source did not provide further details of this plan, but according to Channel 14, it would allow aid to enter the area for a transitional period while "new humanitarian zones" are established in that area to "facilitate the separation between the local population and Hamas," an organization that Israel accuses of seizing aid entering the Palestinian enclave.

Following the ceasefire broken by Israel in March, the Israeli government suspended the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza until late May, when it was allowed back in, in much smaller quantities and according to a new distribution scheme by a controversial US-based foundation (HGF), which has established four heavily militarized distribution points: three in the south and one in the center.

Thus, there is no such point in northern Gaza, but half of the enclave's population (approximately one million people) lives in this area, where Gaza City is located.

Almost daily, the Hamas-affiliated Gaza Health Ministry reports deaths and injuries attempting to access these points, and the Israeli army, which guards them, has acknowledged opening fire near the areas and is investigating the incident.

Israel intends to replace the HGF with the old aid distribution scheme, which was run by the UN and other organizations and had hundreds of distribution points throughout Gaza.

Meanwhile, Israel still allows these organizations to enter Gaza with aid trucks—although they report that they are very insufficient —but very little of it reaches the north of the enclave, as explained by the difficulty in obtaining safe routes for the vehicles from Israel and also because of the looting of the trucks by Gazans.

As a result of the limited aid currently being received by Gazans in the besieged enclave, residents of the Strip are on the brink of starvation. According to Amnesty International, at least 66 children have died as a direct result of malnutrition since October 2023, a figure that does not include those who have died from diseases aggravated by hunger.

According to data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), as of June 15, 2025, more than 18,700 children had been hospitalized for acute malnutrition in Gaza since the beginning of the year.