Statement on aid distribution in Gaza

Statement on aid distribution in Gaza by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

New York, 4 June 2025

The world is watching, day after day, horrifying scenes of Palestinians being shot, wounded or killed in Gaza while simply trying to eat. 

Emergency medical teams have confirmed treating hundreds of trauma cases. Yesterday alone, dozens were declared dead at hospitals after Israeli forces said they had opened fire.

This is the outcome of a series of deliberate choices that have systematically deprived 2 million people of the essentials they need to survive.  

I echo the Secretary-General’s call for immediate, independent investigations. These are not isolated incidents, and the perpetrators must be held accountable. 

No one should have to risk their life to feed their children. 

As I have repeatedly stressed, we must be allowed to do our jobs: We have the teams, the plan, the supplies and the experience.

Open the crossings – all of them. 

Let in lifesaving aid at scale, from all directions. 

Lift the restrictions on what and how much aid we can bring in. 

Ensure our convoys aren’t held up by delays and denials.

Release the hostages. Implement the ceasefire.

We value the support of more and more Member States who are joining our call: Let us work.

Please Watch the Alliance's 3-minute video...

Thanks to a generous grant, the Alliance worked with a Palestinian production company to make this 3-minute video: Draining Palestine: Water, Power, and Genocide.

It details the little-known history of Israel’s use of water as a weapon against Palestinians—beginning in 1919 with the Zionists’ deliberate, articulated plan to steal and deprive water from Palestinians in order to remove people and occupy their land, to today. 
 

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