Oxfam, a non-governmental organization, announced that only 12 humanitarian aid trucks distributed food and water in northern Gaza in two and a half months, sounding the alarm about the deteriorating situation in the besieged Strip.

“Deliberate delays and systematic obstruction by the Israeli military have meant that only 12 trucks have been able to deliver aid to starving Palestinian civilians,” including deliveries, “out of the 34 trucks carrying food and water allowed into North Gaza Governorate over the past two and a half months,” Oxfam said in a statement on Monday.

She pointed out that "in the case of three of them, as soon as food and water were distributed to the school where residents had taken refuge, it was subsequently evacuated and bombed a few hours later."

The occupation has imposed strict control over the arrival of international aid, which is essential for the 2.4 million people of Gaza, since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

Oxfam said it and other international humanitarian organisations had been "continuously prevented" from delivering vital aid in northern Gaza since October 6, when Israel intensified its bombing.

Oxfam estimates that "thousands of people remain isolated, but with humanitarian access blocked, it is impossible to accurately count them."

“At the beginning of December, humanitarian organizations working in Gaza were receiving calls from vulnerable people trapped in homes or shelters, who had run out of food and water,” she added.