India, Aug. 22 -- In Gaza today, aid is the difference between survival and collapse. Since October 2023, more than 61,700 Palestinians have been killed, and about 90% of the strip's 2.1 million people have been displaced. Satellite assessments suggest that 70% of structures have been damaged or destroyed. This is not just a humanitarian crisis; it is a systemic failure. Every day that trucks are delayed, every pallet of medicine stranded at a crossing, is another day when the bare minimum of humanity is withheld from an entire population.

The United Nations is the backbone of relief operations. UNRWA, WFP, and WHO have kept Gaza from falling into total collapse, delivering food parcels, vaccines, and shelter materials under extraordinar...