The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has said that a truck loaded with aid was turned back because it had scissors used in children’s medical kits.
“Medical scissors are now added to a long list of banned items the Israeli Authorities classify as ‘for dual use,'” Lazzarini said Monday on X.
“The list includes basic and lifesaving items: from anesthetics, solar lights, oxygen cylinders and ventilators, to water cleaning tablets, cancer medicines and maternity kits.”
He said that the lives of 2 million people depend on the “clearance of humanitarian supplies + the delivery of basic & critical items,” adding there is “no time to waste.”
CNN has previously reported that humanitarian workers and government officials working to deliver urgently needed aid for Gaza say a clear pattern has emerged of Israeli obstruction, as disease and near-famine conditions grip parts of the besieged enclave.
