The United Nations said 85 percent of its attempts to coordinate aid convoys and humanitarian visits to northern Gaza were rejected or obstructed by Israeli authorities last month.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it had submitted 98 requests to the Israeli authorities for permission to cross the checkpoint along the Gaza Valley, but only 15 were allowed through, according to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

Dujarric noted that OCHA is "concerned about the fate of the remaining Palestinians in northern Gaza as the blockade continues there, and urgently calls on Israel to open the area to humanitarian operations to the extent necessary given the enormous needs."

He pointed out that "over the past three days, teams from OCHA, UN human rights agencies, mine clearance and other humanitarian groups visited nine sites in Gaza City to assess the needs of hundreds of displaced families, many of whom are returning to northern Gaza."

In a new report published yesterday, Monday, OCHA said that humanitarian organizations submitted 50 requests to the Israeli authorities to enter northern Gaza in October, 33 of which were rejected and eight of which were accepted, but faced obstacles, including delays, that prevented them from completing their tasks, according to the spokesman.

This comes at a time when the undeclared famine in northern Gaza is intensifying, with more than 50 days having passed since the Israeli occupation forces prevented the entry of any aid or goods to the hundreds of thousands of residents besieged there, who, according to UN agencies, are being subjected to the most violent campaign of genocide to eliminate them through killing and forced displacement.