Humanitarian Pause in Gaza

Israel is instituting a limited “humanitarian pause” in Gaza in order to allow aid to enter, per a Sunday announcement. The pause will take place for a few hours a day in three areas of Gaza, with 120 aid trucks entering the strip Monday to be distributed by the United Nations.

The UN’s World Food Program said in a statement it has enough food stockpiled to feed all of Gaza for about three months, and would immediately begin to do so.

“There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an event Sunday. “We enable humanitarian aid throughout the duration of the war to enter Gaza - otherwise, there would be no Gazans.”