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WFP - 15 OCTOBER 2025, KEREM SHALOM, SOUTHERN GAZA
1. Various shots, trucks loading
16 OCTOBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Turning to the situation in Gaza, our Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher, while traveling from Cairo to Rafah, spoke of how vital that route is as a lifeline for life-saving aid going into Gaza. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs notes that supplies from Egypt still need to take a long detour and be inspected on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, pending the opening of the Rafah crossing for more direct access. Mr. Fletcher stressed the need for all the crossings to open to allow for a massive scale-up and start turning the situation on the ground around. Speaking from Cairo yesterday, he underscored that humanitarian teams have been preparing for this moment and now need sufficient access to deliver the large amounts of assistance that are needed. The humanitarian community cannot deliver at the scale necessary without international NGO presence and engagement. Currently, the Israeli authorities do not issue visas for a number of international NGOs and do not authorize many of them to send supplies into Gaza.”
WFP - 15 OCTOBER 2025, KEREM SHALOM, SOUTHERN GAZA
3. Various shots, trucks loading
16 OCTOBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“That being said, humanitarian teams inside Gaza continue to make the most out of the opportunities afforded to them by the ceasefire. To give you some examples, on Tuesday alone, 21 of our partners distributed nearly 960,000 meals through 175 kitchens. Bakeries that we support produced over 100,000 two-kilogram bread bundles. UNICEF distributed more than one million baby diapers. And the World Health Organization delivered three truckloads of surgical and other essential medical supplies from their warehouse in Deir al Balah to the central pharmacy in Gaza City. The WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros said those medical supplies will be transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital and will meet the needs of about 10,000 people. WHO also deployed an international emergency medical team to boost orthopedic surgery and trauma care in Gaza. And their teams set up two new operating theaters, and they are planning to add 120 more inpatient beds to Al-Shifa to expand the hospital’s capacity. OCHA tells us that teams from across the UN system have now finished clearing the main roads leading to the Erez and Zikim crossings in the north in anticipation of their potential re-opening, which would allow, of course, aid to be brought in directly into northern Gaza where it is desperately needed.”
WFP - 14 OCTOBER 2025, NORTHERN GAZA
5. Various shots, road cleaning
16 OCTOBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Today, we have teams checking the Salah Ad Din road, which has not been used for months. Also on Tuesday, we had colleagues from multiple UN agencies visit the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza city – which was severely impacted by the recent military operation. Our teams also met there with returnees and with those who have remained all along and heard from them how determined they are to rebuild their lives. Their main humanitarian priority was access to water, alongside food, shelter and the removal of debris. Those who have lost their homes were staying in tents, while those who returned to homes that were still inhabitable have begun clearing rubble and cleaning up.”
WFP - 14 OCTOBER 2025, NORTHERN GAZA
7. Various shots, road cleaning
16 OCTOBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Meanwhile, over the past week, our colleagues from the UN 2720 Mechanism have secured Israeli clearance for additional supplies, raising our cleared pipeline to nearly 200,000 metric tonnes. The items are currently in Jordan, Cyprus, Israel, and the West Bank – or on their way to Gaza. We also will keep sending even more supplies to the Kissufim and Kerem Shalom crossings, offloading them there, and collecting them from inside Gaza. Yesterday, through the UN 2720 mechanism, our teams and partners sent wheat flour, food parcels, nutrition supplements, date bars, food supplies for kitchens, hygiene kits, sanitary pads, diapers, various medical equipment, tents and animal fodder. Between Friday and Tuesday, our teams have been able to collect nearly 3,500 metric tonnes of essential supplies from those crossings. That is based on the [UN 2720] mechanism’s tracking, and those efforts continue as we speak.”
WFP - 15 OCTOBER 2025, KEREM SHALOM, SOUTHERN GAZA
9. Various shots, trucks loading
16 OCTOBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“COGAT presented to the mediators yesterday that 716 trucks had crossed through Israeli controlled crossings. That was yesterday. Those numbers reflect trucks sent through commercial sector, bilateral donations and the UN system combined. Our estimate is about one third of that 716 were UN-coordinated trucks, so that would be about 230 or so. But those are figures given to us by the Israeli COGAT. As I said, I hope in the coming days, we'll have a system in place where I think we can get our own numbers.”
WFP - 15 OCTOBER 2025, KEREM SHALOM, SOUTHERN GAZA
11. Wide shot, fuel trucks moving
“Humanitarian teams inside Gaza continue to make the most out of the opportunities afforded to them by the ceasefire,” said UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, highlighting ongoing efforts to deliver life-saving assistance.
Briefing reporters today (16 Oct) he said that on Tuesday alone, “21 of our partners distributed nearly 960,000 meals through 175 kitchens. Bakeries that we support produced over 100,000 two-kilogram bread bundles. UNICEF distributed more than one million baby diapers. And the World Health Organization delivered three truckloads of surgical and other essential medical supplies from their warehouse in Deir al Balah to the central pharmacy in Gaza City.”
Dujarric added that the supplies will be transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital to meet the needs of about 10,000 people. WHO has also deployed an international emergency medical team “to boost orthopedic surgery and trauma care in Gaza,” set up two new operating theatres, and is “planning to add 120 more inpatient beds to Al-Shifa to expand the hospital’s capacity.”
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that teams have finished clearing the main roads leading to the Erez and Zikim crossings in the north, “in anticipation of their potential re-opening, which would allow, of course, aid to be brought in directly into northern Gaza where it is desperately needed.”
Dujarric said that through the UN’s 2720 mechanism, Israeli clearance for additional supplies was secured, raising the UN’s cleared pipeline to “nearly 200,000 metric tonnes.” The items are currently “in Jordan, Cyprus, Israel, and the West Bank – or on their way to Gaza.”
“Yesterday, through the UN 2720 mechanism, our teams and partners sent wheat flour, food parcels, nutrition supplements, date bars, food supplies for kitchens, hygiene kits, sanitary pads, diapers, various medical equipment, tents and animal fodder,” he said.
Between Friday and Tuesday, teams “were able to collect nearly 3,500 metric tonnes of essential supplies from those crossings.”
He also noted that UN staff are checking the Salah Ad Din road, which has not been used for months, and that humanitarian teams visited the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, where they met residents determined to rebuilding their lives. “Their main humanitarian priority was access to water, alongside food, shelter and the removal of debris.”
When asked how many trucks have gone into Gaza in the past few days, Dujarric said that, according to COGAT, yesterday, “716 trucks had crossed through Israeli controlled crossings.” This is a combined number of trucks sent by commercial sector, bilateral donations and the UN system. “Our estimate is about one third of that 716 were UN-coordinated trucks, so that would be about 230 or so,” said Dujarric.
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