“The needs are 500-600 trucks at a minimum that should go into Gaza, loaded with supplies. Not only food but also medicine, medical supplies, vaccines for children, fuel, water and other basics for people’s survival.”

Israeli authorities last week allowed a trickle of aid into the Palestinian enclave for the first time since March. Source: AAP / HAITHAM IMAD/EPA

OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke said that the UN was not involved in the GHF aid.

Touma said no UNRWA supplies had gone in since 2 March, while Laerke said he had no information on how many UN trucks had passed through the Kerem Shalom crossing, partly because Israel does not allow them to have a fixed presence there.

‘Threats will not deter us’

While stressing its “non-negotiable” dedication to the safety and security of aid workers and civilians, GHF insisted “these threats will not deter us.”

On Tuesday, the GHF announced it had named John Acree interim Executive Director, hailing his “more than two decades of global field experience in disaster response, stabilisation programming and civil-military coordination.”

New ceasefire proposal

In Gaza, an early-morning Israeli strike on the Fahmi Al-Jarjawi school, where displaced people were sheltering, killed “at least 33, with dozens injured, mostly children”, civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said on Tuesday.