Israel blocks humanitarian aid from entering Gaza
BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r448 (Published 04 March 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r448
- Mun-Keat Looi
- The BMJ
Israel is preventing humanitarian aid from entering Gaza following the expiration of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement on Saturday 1 March.
No aid trucks were allowed into Gaza on Sunday morning, aid agencies said, contrasting with the thousands that have entered since the ceasefire began on 19 January.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hamas “steals the supplies and prevents the people of Gaza from getting them.”1 Hamas denies the accusations.
A Hamas spokesperson told BBC News that blocking supplies was “cheap blackmail” and called on mediators—Egypt, Qatar, and the US—to intervene. Qatar’s foreign ministry said it strongly condemned the Israeli blockade, which it described as “a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement …
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