UN deplores Israel's 'systematic' attempt to hinder humanitarian aid to Gaza

While Israel is at the ICJ defending itself against genocide charges, and alleging that it is facilitating humanitarian aid to the population of Gaza, the UN in a statement on Friday has claimed otherwise. 

The United Nations humanitarian office said that Israeli authorities were systematically denying it access to northern Gaza to deliver aid, and this had significantly hindered the humanitarian operation there.

"The operations in the north have become increasingly more complicated," said Andrea de Domenico, head of the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories.

"We have systematic refusal from the Israeli side of our effort to get there, to access the north."