Israel Blames UN for Slow Aid as Guterres Warns of Disaster
- Israeli agency says UN doesn’t have capacity to deal with aid
- UN says its staff can’t get to work because of fighting
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Israel blamed the United Nations for the inadequate flow of food and other aid into Gaza, deepening a dispute over an evolving humanitarian crisis.
Israel is clearing 250 trucks a day through the Nitzana border crossing between Egypt and Gaza but the UN is unable to process what’s arriving and distribute it in Gaza, said Colonel Elad Goren, head of the civil department of the agency overseeing Israeli government activities in Gaza and the West Bank.