Ms Finola Finnan:

I thank the Deputy. I will start and others might add to it. As we know, there is only a trickle of aid going in because we only have one crossing at Rafah and also because of the situation, especially in the north, where there is very little humanitarian aid being delivered. Since October we have had about 1,320 trucks go in, which is only 4% of the daily average volume prior to the current hostilities. There is very little aid going in. From our perspective, we are seeing that a lot of our partners have been unable to work. Certainly, we are still responding to the likes of Medical Aid for Palestinians, which was able to buy supplies to stockpile at the start of the conflict and was therefore able to provide some critical medical support and supplies vital for treating the civilian population there. We have also been able to get some supplies from Irish Aid's rapid response, which we are hoping to get in soon, such as tarpaulins and the like. However, the truth is the UN is able to continue to support, but at the moment we are waiting to scale up and we absolutely need a cessation of the bombardment on the population to be able to scale to anything like we need.

Ms Bennett would perhaps like to include some perspective from Christian Aid as well.