The United Nations Relief agency (UNRWA) that provides food aid to the Gaza Strip warned Tuesday that it will be forced to halt its food distribution in the Palestine territory if Israel continues with its blockade.
The agency said that its supplies would run out in a day or two unless Israel permits the transfer of fresh supplies into the besieged Palestinian territory and warned that the continued Israeli blockade would deprive some 750,000 Gazans of the much required food rations.
The UNRWA spokesman Christophen Gunness told reporters on Tuesday that the aid distributions to 750,000 people in Gaza will end on Thursday unless the agency is provided with fresh stocks of wheat, luncheon meat, powder milk and oil.
"It is a further illustration of the barbarity of this inhuman blockade. It is also shameful and unacceptable that the largest humanitarian actor in Gaza is being forced into yet another cycle of crisis management," said Gunness.
The week-long blockade also forced the shut down of the territory's only power plant on Monday after the plant ran out of fuel. But on Tuesday, Israel agreed to permit a limited amount of fuel to be transferred to the only power plant in the Gaza Strip after a meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair.
Israel had closed its border with the Gaza Strip last week after Palestinian militants there responded to an earlier Israeli military raid in the territory by firing rockets into the Jewish country.
Israel had imposed a strict blockade of the Gaza Strip ever since after Hamas, a radical Islamist group, came to power in the territory in June 2007, ousting the secularist Fatah party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas.
It, however, relaxed some of its restrictions shipments of aid and other essential supplies as per an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire, which has largely held despite occasional violations from both sides. The deal requires the Gaza militants to end rocket fire into Israel, while Israel is to ease its blockade.
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