Xinhua Agency, United Nations, October 9 (Reporter Pan Yunzhao) Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said on the 9th that the United Nations has formulated a plan for humanitarian assistance within 60 days after the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement comes into effect, and a total of 170,000 tons of food, medicine and other supplies have been prepared.

At a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Fletcher said via a video link that the United Nations goal was to increase the daily transportation of goods to hundreds of trucks. Expanding Gaza¡¯s food supply to approximately 2.1 million people in need of aid, the situation in hunger areas must be reversed; physical distribution in the local area, supporting bakeries and community cuisines, and helping pastors and fishermen restore livelihoods; and cash aid to 200,000 households to enable them to choose food on the market, ¡°recover dignity and autonomy.¡±

Fletcher said that the United Nations will strengthen nutritional screening locally to provide nutritional supplements to the most vulnerable groups; restore the severely damaged medical system, provide more necessary medical supplies and supplies, and strengthen epidemic prevention and surveillance; Help restore the local water supply network, providing water and sanitation services to 1.4 million people; a large-scale increase in housing supply, including helping local families prepare for the winter, focusing on families with large populations and difficult circumstances; Reopening temporary learning places for 700,000 school-age children and providing learning materials and supplies.

Fletcher emphasized that in order to implement this plan, it is necessary to deliver at least 1.9 million liters of fuel to the Gaza Strip every week, open more fully functional crossing points, restore basic infrastructure, protect humanitarian workers, and facilitate access for NGOs. Provide convenience, etc. He also called on the international community to generously provide assistance to the Gaza Strip.

Starting on the 6th, Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) began a new round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. Negotiating mediators announced in the early morning of the 9th that an agreement had been reached covering all provisions and implementation mechanisms of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which would lead to the end of the war, the release of Israeli detainees and Palestinian prisoners, and the entry of humanitarian relief supplies into the Gaza Strip.