The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has called on the Israeli occupation authorities to allow the large quantities of humanitarian aid it holds to enter the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA said in a post on the X platform today: “Israel must allow UNRWA to bring in the huge amounts of aid that have been stuck in our warehouses in Jordan and Egypt since March 2,” stressing that it is the only entity capable of delivering life-saving aid to the Gaza Strip at the scale needed by the population.

During the first four days of the ceasefire agreement, UNRWA delivered food supplies sufficient for one million people, about half of the Gaza population, according to news agencies. It also stated readiness to deliver more supplies once it receives the green light from the Israeli side.

UNRWA’s statement comes amid the ongoing suffering of Gaza residents due to the siege and destruction caused by the Israeli war, and days after an agreement was reached between Israel and Hamas on a plan presented by U.S. President Donald Trump. The plan includes a ceasefire, withdrawal of occupation forces from specific areas within Gaza, allowing humanitarian aid entry, prisoner exchanges, and the release of about two thousand Palestinians from Israeli prisons in exchange for the release of Israeli detainees and the handing over of bodies.

UNRWA has repeatedly warned of the worsening humanitarian disaster in Gaza, affirming that the continued Israeli restrictions on aid entry threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians facing severe shortages of food, medicine, and potable water.