Mark Owen Jones, assistant professor of Middle East studies at Doha’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University, says the reported 20 aid trucks entering Gaza is “an absolutely insignificant number”.
“About 100,000 tonnes of aid is about enough to sustain half a million people for a week. When you consider there’s two million people [in Gaza] and only a portion of that aid is going through, what’s that going to do?,” he told Al Jazeera.
“The aid that is going in, is also in addition to the fact that the existing stocks and supplies in Gaza have already been depleted. Really, it’s a drop in the ocean of what’s required … it’s important to have humanitarian aid, but seeing this as a victory for Gaza is problematic.
“All it’s going to do is sustain a certain level of relief from suffering and it’s not going to mitigate the suffering at all especially when there’s prospect of an Israeli ground invasion hanging over, there’s no ceasefire.”
Source: alJazeera
