Another eight vans carrying meals, drugs and water are anticipated to cross into the Gaza Strip on Friday, a senior United Nations official mentioned, as a mixture of technical, political and safety points had been hindering deliveries.

“We have gotten in approximately 74 trucks. We’re expecting another eight or so today,” Lynn Hastings, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, informed reporters in Geneva.

Hastings mentioned detailed negotiations had been going down with Israel in a bid to safe extra humanitarian crossings within the densely populated enclave, which has been hit by unrelenting air strikes which have killed 1000’s in response to shock assaults by Hamas gunmen on Oct. 7.

“In addition to the technical issues and the security issues, there are political issues as well,” Hastings mentioned. “And there’s a certain amount of pressure on the government of Israel in terms of its domestic politics.”

There remains to be no settlement to get gasoline into Gaza, and the U.N. Palestinian refugee company has mentioned the absence of gasoline was jeopardising life-saving humanitarian operations there.

Officials are additionally grappling with the problem of deciding the best way to distribute the scant support.

“We are aware of the 1,000 patients that require dialysis and over 100 children and babies that are in incubators, so we do our best to try and make the prioritisation in accordance with the greatest needs,” Hastings mentioned.