The transport system handling Gaza's humanitarian aid has collapsed, turning internal travel into a critical bottleneck. Heavy destruction and a blockade on spare parts have reduced the working truck fleet to a tiny fraction of pre-war levels. Without functional trucks, fuel, or intact roads, essential aid like food and medicine becomes trapped before reaching distribution centers.
At the same time, aid drivers face immense life-threatening risks from military attacks and destruction along heavily damaged distribution routes. While international focus often centers on how many trucks enter Gaza through border crossings, aid workers argue that the ability of these trucks to actually survive the journey and reach local distribution hubs is the far more decisive factor in preventing humanitarian catastrophe.
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