News - Middle East: Israel keeps in place the restrictions on a trickle of humanitarian aid entering the besieged Gaza Strip, the United Nations has warned.

“Israel continues to impose unlawful restrictions on the entry and distribution of humanitarian assistance, and to carry out widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure,” said Ravina Shamdasani, the spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, at a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday.
The occupying regime has blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza.
On April 1, Israel faced worldwide backlash after an airstrike killed seven aid workers working for the NGO World Central Kitchen in central Gaza.

“Those delivering or trying to access humanitarian assistance must never be attacked,” Shamdasani said.

Aid agencies, international charities and the International Court of Justice have on several occasions stated that Israel is blocking humanitarian supplies from entering the besieged Palestinian territory, where hunger is most pervasive.
Shamdasani also voiced concern over increasing settler violence in the occupied West Bank, calling on Israeli forces to “immediately end their active participation in and support for settler attacks” on Palestinians.