Sakhr Humaid received the call from the Israel Defense Forces telling him to evacuate not once but twice.

On the afternoon of Oct. 7, an Israeli airstrike hit the home in Gaza City where Humaid lived with his wife, elderly parents, five children and three siblings. The blast brought down their roof, but they survived. The following day brought the first Israeli call: Leave or face more bombs.

They grabbed the few belongings they could take with them and traveled 15 miles to the southern city of Khan Yunis. After a week, they got an eerily familiar message: another Israeli call to leave.

The Humaid family headed to Rafah, the Gazan city on the strips border with Egypt. They are one of five families now sheltering at a friends home there, joining nearly 600,000 people who have left northern Gaza following a broad Israeli order on Oct. 13 to leave the north within 24 hours.

The situation is worse than we ever imagined or lived before, Humaid told HuffPost, saying he cannot find enough food or drink for his children all younger than 12 or his elderly parents. Its a scary situation, one of terror and worry and an extreme fear over ones life.

Five weeks into the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, the global conversation about the conflict largely focuses on the humanitarian crisis in the region and how it is rapidly worsening despite claims by Israel and its most important backer, the U.S., that the campaign is prioritizing the protection of civilians.

Israeli and American officials are rejecting public calls for a cease-fire, including from the United Nations , by saying Israel must move fast to punish the Gaza-based militant group Hamas for its Oct. 7 attack inside the country. They argue that the operation can continue and avoid unnecessary damage, citing measures like a recently announced plan for brief daily pauses in bombing in some parts of the Palestinian enclave of Gaza to let aid in and let civilians leave, and intensive diplomacy at the strips southern border with Egypt to allow more aid trucks to enter.

But humanitarian groups and people inside Gaza say the evidence shows those steps are far from sufficient.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. is leading talks to get supplies across the Rafah Crossing, the only entry point into Gaza that is not controlled by Israel. Negotiations over the crossing are complex: Israel has repeatedly bombed it and says it must check the supplies that pass through to ensure they do not contain materials that could bolster Hamas, and Egyptian and Hamas officials have a say over whether the crossing remains functional.

On Oct. 31, Blinken said the bare minimum of whats needed is for 100 trucks a day to bring in aid through Rafah. On Nov. 3, he said the daily figure of trucks making the crossing exceeded 100, and on Nov. 5, he said it was about a hundred.

Yet data gathered by a United Nations-led logistics tracker and viewed by HuffPost tells a different story.

Only 47 trucks were approved to unload aid into Gaza on Nov. 3, only 30 on Nov. 4 and only 25 on Nov. 5. Since Blinken identified his daily goal, there have only been two days when about 100 trucks worth of aid entered Gaza: Nov. 2 and Nov. 8, according to the logistics tracker. On Nov. 9, 75 trucks worth of aid was planned but only 39 were actually able to deliver supplies, the data shows. The planned figure for Nov. 10 was only 30. (No confirmation was available yet for Friday on how many trucks were able to actually offload supplies, which usually include necessities such as food and medical equipment.)

A State Department spokesperson conceded that the process is not yet working as intended.

On several days in the past week, partners have succeeded in moving more than 100 trucks into Gaza via Rafah we are working on mechanisms to consistently surpass 100 trucks a day, the spokesperson said via email. We are committed to ensure that progress is sustained, and continues to be expanded upon in the days to come. The trendline is up some days and down some days given complex logistics involved, but overall, the amount of aid getting into Gaza is increasing and we continue to advocate for more throughput to provide urgently needed relief to civilians in Gaza.

Nearly 70% of Gazas population of 2.3 million people has been internally displaced . More than half of those civilians are sheltering in southern areas, such as Khan Younis and Rafah, where water is now extremely scarce and there is a severe shortage of the fuel needed for water pumps and generators at hospitals and other facilities.

More people are en route to those overwhelmed areas, per Israeli orders: Between 50,000 and 80,000 Gazans fled south on foot on Thursday amid high temperatures, the U.N. reported. Shelters are overcrowded, bread and basic necessities are disappearing from the markets, and a public health crisis is growing as thousands of cases of acute respiratory illness, skin infections and diarrhea are being reported, according to local health officials.