Aid organizations: Not enough tents or food are reaching Gaza as winter approaches

Humanitarian aid organizations said on Tuesday that aid reaching Gaza is woefully inadequate as hunger persists, winter approaches, and old tents begin to deteriorate, nearly four weeks after a ceasefire ended a devastating two-year Israeli offensive.

The ceasefire was supposed to open the door to a massive influx of aid across the small, densely populated territory, where famine was confirmed in August and where almost all of its 2.3 million residents were displaced by Israeli bombardment.

However, the World Food Programme said that only half of the required food supplies were reaching the Gaza Strip, while a group of Palestinian organizations said that the total aid volume was between a quarter and a third of the expected amount.