Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on August 7, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
The EU reports significant barriers to humanitarian aid in Gaza, despite some improvements in fuel delivery and infrastructure repairs.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to be very severe, an EU official told Reuters after the EU's foreign policy and humanitarian arms updated member countries late on Wednesday on the status of an agreement reached with Israel last month on boosting humanitarian access to Gaza.
The official said on Thursday that there were some positive developments regarding fuel delivery, the reopening of some routes, and an upward trend in the number of daily trucks entering the enclave and the repair of some vital infrastructure.
However, the official added that "significant obstructive factors continue to undermine humanitarian operations and aid delivery to Gaza, notably the lack of a safe operating environment to allow the distribution of aid at scale."
(Reporting by Lili Bayer;Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
Humanitarian aid refers to assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to crises such as natural disasters or conflicts, aimed at saving lives, alleviating suffering, and maintaining human dignity.
Risk management is the process of identifying, assessing, and controlling threats to an organization's capital and earnings, including financial uncertainties, legal liabilities, and strategic management.
Economic growth is the increase in the production of goods and services in an economy over a period, typically measured by the rise in real GDP.
A safe operating environment refers to conditions that allow organizations to operate without significant risk of harm, disruption, or danger, particularly important in humanitarian operations.
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