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The UN acted as if it lacked the capacity to move food to northern Gaza, stalling aid trucks at the Kerem Shalom crossing, defense officials claim.<\/p>\n
Defense officials accused the United Nations on Friday of undermining efforts<\/a> to supply food to Gazan civilians, adding to the existing tensions between the international body and Israel.<\/p>\n The UN had acted as if it lacked the capacity to move food to northern Gaza, thereby stalling hundreds of aid trucks at the Kerem Shalom crossing point, the officials claimed.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said that the UN is reducing cooperation with Israel\u2019s food initiative, complicating the distribution of aid and effectively playing into Hamas\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n On Monday, Tom Fletcher<\/a>, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said there are 10,000 aid trucks<\/a> on the Gaza border, cleared and ready to go.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got 10,000 trucks on the border right now, cleared [and] ready to go, and we\u2019ll do everything to get them in and save lives,\u201d Fletcher told CNN\u2019s Christine Amanpour on Monday.<\/p>\n