Aid efforts ‘critical’ in Gaza as Palestinians return north | BBC News

Jordanian helicopters are flying Aid into Gaza for the first time since the ceasefire between Israel and Hammer started more than a week ago the aircraft are carrying urgently needed medical supplies to about 1.9 million displaced Palestinians Aid efforts are critical in Gaza as tens of thousands of Palestinians make their way back to Northern Gaza let's now speak to our correspondent Nick beak who is in Jerusalem for us Nick the very fact that so many Palestinians are on the move within Gaza makes this humanitarian exercise even more complicated doesn't it it does Tanya and the latest

we're hearing is that now more than 370,000 Palestinians have made this journey from the south of the Gaza Strip across the the checkpoint to the north people returning to what remains of their homes and at the same time Aid agencies are saying that they're seeing for themselves the the devastation there they're talking about a real lack of water and electricity it's worth pointing out that the same Aid agencies are saying that in the past 10 days or so they've really boosted the amount of Aid getting into Gaza coming in on trucks as part of this

ceasefire deal the figure is 600 trucks must be entering the territory every day we know blankets are coming in medicine but still there is a real lack um of what's what is really needed and at the same time as you're saying there's uncertainty about what happens Beyond tomorrow and that's because this ban that the Israeli parliament passed last year on umra the the UN agency looking after Palestinian refugees it would basically won't be able to operate uh in Israel itself and the focus tomorrow will be in occupied East Jerusalem where offices have to close and

schools and other sort of medical facilities also they're supposed to cease with their operations right and the underlying fragility in the ceas fire and the process itself how is that being felt at the moment is there increased confidence or does it feel very shaky still I think yes it's one step at a time we're in the middle of this first six we phase during which 33 hostages are to be released we've heard from the Israeli government the day before yesterday saying that of the 26 hostages of those 33 still to be released in this first

initial stage 18 are alive and eight are dead that's what the Israelis are saying after being given information from Hamas and in terms of what happens next tomorrow is the next round of an exchange we're due to see three hostages released from Gaza at the same time that dozens of palestin Palestinian prisoners are released from Israeli jail and again another exchange on Saturday so all that seems to be progressing but this is worth stress worth stressing just the first part of this deal and there are much bigger things ahead including talks for what happens to

Gaza after the eventual withdrawal of IDF for forces which is supposed to take place as part of this ceasefire Arrangement well indeed and no doubt the magnitude of the task there will dwarf the logistics that are going on at the moment yes absolutely and I think what we'll see in the coming weeks and months are varying ideas about what happens we saw president Trump at the weekend uh he caused a lot of alarm among Pol Palestinians and also other Arab countries talking when they were listening to what he was saying about about his estimation that

it's over in Gaza as he put it that the place should be cleaned out and he was suggesting that Egypt and Jordan should be taking in a Palestinians so that Palestinians could live in peace as Mr Trump put it that led to accusations that he was talking about ethnic cleansing for all intents and purposes and so varying visions of what happens next will be put forward but certainly the jordanians for one were saying that absolutely Palestinians have to be involved in the rebuilding of Gaza but what's absolutely clear tan is it's a Monumental task and

what we've seen over the past 48 Hours the the images of Destruction and the accounts that gazans are giving as they go back to their homes really paints an extremely Bleak picture of what the reality is for families there