On Sunday, the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” called for an increase in humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip, stressing that the aid entering the Strip does not meet 10 percent of its needs.

The newspaper said, in its editorial, that “increasing the amount of aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip is an urgent matter, as about half of Gaza’s population suffers from extreme and very severe hunger.”

It pointed out that “90 percent of the Gaza Strip’s population may spend an entire day without food.”

It explained that “the 190 aid trucks that Israel allows to enter the Gaza Strip daily do not meet 10 percent of the needs of the population there.”

The newspaper stressed that “the Israeli media conceals from its audience the extent of destruction, killing, and real humanitarian disasters in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing war.”

It added, “Israelis’ support for the war and identification with its goals does not necessarily mean accepting the massive harm being caused to civilians in Gaza.”

The residents of Gaza are suffering from a catastrophic humanitarian and health situation, as about 1.4 million people out of 2.3 million have been displaced from their homes, and Israel has deprived them of supplies of food, water, medicine, and electricity, in light of intense bombardment.

Officials in the Gaza Strip have repeatedly stressed that the volume of aid entering Gaza is not in line with the needs of the population in light of the strict siege imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip since 2006.

On October 26, a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) revealed that the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip for 17 years has made 80 percent of its population dependent on international aid.

Since last October 7, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, which as of Sunday left 21,822 killed, 56,451 wounded, massive infrastructure destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the Gaza Strip authorities and the United Nations.