Fury Over Food Aid Stuck in Warehouse for Starving Palestinians
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper expressed deep frustration after visiting a depot near Amman, Jordan, where thousands of tonnes of food aid meant for Gaza remain stuck due to Israeli restrictions.
Aid Stockpiled Under Israeli Limitations
About 5,000 pallets (4,000 metric tonnes) containing essentials such as wheat flour, tinned goods, yeast, and sugar are held in a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse outside Amman. This aid could support 150 trucks entering Gaza daily, five days a week, for three months, according to officials.
However, the main crossing from Jordan into the West Bank is currently closed to goods vehicles by Israel, preventing the delivery of this critical aid.
Statements from Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper
"We've got UK funded aid that needs to go to Gaza and it's being held up here in Jordan. The wheat alone in this warehouse could feed 700,000 people for a month and yet we've got children in Gaza who are still going hungry. That is wrong and it has to be fixed. That's why I'm calling for the Jordanian route into Gaza to be reopened."
"I'm calling for the reopening of all the crossings and to make sure that we can get this aid flooded back into Gaza, because frankly the people of Gaza can't wait."
"It just feels so deeply wrong. You just feel so frustrated and angry to see that we've got food that could be reaching families but currently isn't."
Summary
The blockage of vital UK-funded food aid in Jordan due to Israeli closures has provoked strong condemnation from Foreign Secretary Cooper, who urges immediate reopening of crossings to alleviate the hunger crisis in Gaza.
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