The United Nations confirmed - in the latest report on the situation in Gaza, issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - that Israel's prevention of entry into northern Gaza led to only 21% of all planned supplies of food, water and medicine reaching the residents of the northern Gaza Strip.

The UN report stressed that Israel has imposed strict restrictions on humanitarian aid missions to northern Gaza since the beginning of the new year, compared to last December.

The international organization explained in the report that last December, 13 of 18 UN aid missions planned to reach the north of the Strip were arriving in the northern sector, but this number deteriorated sharply at the beginning of this year.

The report added that every day of loss of assistance leads to the loss of lives and suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who remain in northern Gaza.

This comes amid the Israeli authorities' denial that they prevented the entry of aid or controlled it into the Gaza Strip.