In front of a warehouse in southern Gaza one day this week, a small crowd of men and boys waited for her turn for a little humanitarian aid that Gaza is – sickWho,, starvedWho,, freezing Gaza – desperately needed. They walked with bags of flour and cardboard boxes of food, and many dragged their precious burden behind them in a two -wheeled wheelchair.

It was a neat scene that became rare in the area since the war began more than 15 months ago. Israeli limitations to help, safety collapse that enabled widespread robbery The help trucks and other obstacles combined themselves to limit food, water, tents, medicines and fuel that reached civilians in the middle of the Israeli siege on that belt.

In the week after the break of fire agreement He stopped fighting in Gaza, Palestinians in Gaza and humanitarian officials say that more food delivery and other necessary items arrive. The question is now how to maintain a level of help that they say is needed by Gazi, despite many logistical challenges and uncertainty about how much the truce will last.

The United Nations brought in Gaza in three days of this week as much food as they did all over the month of October, said the temporary head of the UN humanitarian Gaza Humanitarian Office Jonathan Whittall on Brifing on Thursday.

Other UN and humanitarian group agencies distributed medical supplies and fuel for the power supply of hospitals and wells, among other types of assistance, and assisted in repairing a critical infrastructure. The tents are soon set, and the bakery is expected to start supplying bread until Friday, according to the United Nations.

From the beginning of the interruption of the fire, civilian police officers belonging to the Hamas Government appeared again, which seems to have returned some security and order in the enclave. Play from Hamas’s controlHowever, it can complicate the prospects for permanent peace in Gaza.

Cogat, an Israeli government agency that controls politics in Gaza and the West Coast, did not respond to the commentary request, and Israel said a little public about help from the beginning of the fire break. But Israel said during the war that was not limiting help in gauze and blamed the humanitarian agencies because they failed to distribute the supplies they received in the enclave after checking.

All in all, between 600 and 900 trucks of loaded aid has arrived in Gaza every day since the truce came into force on January 19, surpassing several dozen trucks that have been entering every day in recent months.

By Tuesday, Kholoud al-Shanna, 43, and her family received a bag of flour from the World Food Program, the first in two months.

It was welcome. But “we still miss the basis,” Mrs. Al-Shanna said. “My children have not eaten fresh vegetables for so long that they have almost forgotten what it tastes like. How will we only survive from flour? “

Improvement came in that plan. Before the war, Gaza was supplied with a combination of donated help and goods for sale. Small quantities of imported fresh products, meat and other food continued to sell on the markets all the way to Israel forbidden Most commercial items late last year, claiming that Hamas had profited at the store. Some commercial goods have entered Gaza this week, according to humanitarian workers, bringing fresh vegetables and even chocolates to the markets at lower prices than customers have seen in recent months.

The distribution of help after entering Gaza is still ongoing. Many roads are in ruins after 15 months of war, although the municipalities in Gaza begin to clean the ruins. Underlying killer funds are still full of enclaves, making distribution and repairs dangerous.

About 500 trucks carrying a mixture of help and commercial goods entered Gaza every day before the war. The fire interruption agreement provides for 600 trucks every day, for which humanitarian officials say they will be under pressure to endure themselves. .

“I cannot deliver this only to the United Nations, in no way,” Philippe Lazzarini, leader of the United Nations agency for help and work, or UNRWAThe primary straw of salvation for Palestinian refugees, he said a few days before the fire interruption came into force.

The uncertain situation of UNRWA is another potential obstacle: while UN officials say the agency is crucial for efforts to help because it makes the backbone of supply chains and services in Gaza, Israel is Israel moved to the ban Agency for accusations of protecting Hamas militants. Humanitarian aid officials say there is nothing that could take his place.

The biggest challenge of all is the extent of an emergency. Although help may be coming now, humanitarian officials said, Gazi was so lacking in help that a large amount of stock would just need to stabilize the population and prevent more deaths, not to mention the final renewal.

Gazi will also need educational and psychological services and other support to start recovering, officials say.

The number of trucks that have recently entered Gaza “is still a drop in the sea compared to the amount of help needed to make up for what has been a huge shortage in the last year and a half,” said Bob Kitchen, an emergency vice -president in the International Rescue Committee .

Some obstacles gradually yield. The obvious willingness of Israel to introduce the wave has solved what the help and government officials who donated help say that the biggest obstacle was for Gaza to get what she needed. Saying that his goal was to prevent Hamas from supplying through help delivery, Israel introduced strict inspections that enters Gaza and limited her movement when found inside Gaza, often delaying or stopping the delivery.

Humanitarian workers no longer have to seek permission from the Israeli army to move through the gauze, except from south to north, which speeds up the process. Before interrupting the fire, many trucks intended for transporting assistance to the warehouse around the belt stood paralyzed due to lack of fuel; Now the fuel enters.

Israel continues to ban agencies to enter a long list of objects for which humanitarian aid officials say they are vital for an emergency response, but that Israel considers “double use”, which means that Hamas could also use them for military purposes. This includes everything from scissors to tent material.

However, some of these restrictions have been abolished, humanitarian officials say, and conversations continue to abolish new ones.

Another problem that has been tormented by the distribution of help in Gaza for months was a robbery, which redirected a large part of the help intended for civilians.

The situation in Gaza worsened after the Israeli army in May did an invasion of Rafah, in southern Gaza, trying to expel Hamas from, as Israel said, one of his last strongholds. Hamas’s security forces fled, and organized gangs – without anyone stopping them – began to intercept trucks with humanitarian aid after moving to Gaza.

International humanitarian workers have accused Israel of ignoring the problem and allowing robbers to act unpunished. The United Nations do not allow Israeli soldiers to protect the convinces, fearing that this would endanger their neutrality, and their officials called to Israel to allow the Gaza police, which is under Hamas’s authority, to ensure their convoys.

Israel, who sought to destroy Hamas in Gaza, accused him of theft of assistance and said the police were part of his apparatus. In the end, the security was so bad that many humanitarian groups kept their delivery at the borders of Gaza rather than risking a dangerous trip to Gaza.

But the fears that the organized robbery will continue after the break of the fire have decreased. Officers patrol the large part of the gauze again. Although some people still pull out boxes from the truck – scenes described by humanitarian aid officials and testified to them by a New York Times journalist – now this is a far smaller scope.

Palestinians in Gaza say that people will have less incentives for robbery, as help becomes more accessible.

“I noticed a clear progress – more people today get food packages,” said Rami Abu Sharkh, 44, an accountant from the city of Gaza, which was displaced to southern Gaza. “I hope so it will continue until the theft is completely eliminated.”

Farnaz Fassihi contributed to reporting from New York.