The UN children’s agency said it had, for the first time in two-and-a-half years, been able to deliver school kits with learning materials into Gaza after they were previously blocked by Israeli authorities.
Thousands of kits, including pencils, exercise books, and wooden cubes to play with, have now entered the enclave, Unicef said.
“We have now, in the last days, got in thousands of recreational kits, hundreds of school-in-a-carton kits. We’re looking at getting 2,500 more school kits in, in the next week, because they’ve been approved,” Unicef spokesperson James Elder said.
A spokesperson for Cogat, the arm of the Israeli military that oversees aid flows into the Gaza Strip, confirmed it had recently allowed Unicef to bring in learning kits, though not textbooks. A Cogat spokesperson told Reuters learning kits had been let in several times during the war, without saying how. –Agencies
