Only five out of 24 scheduled humanitarian deliveries were carried out in the north of Gaza in the first 11 days of 2024, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the embattled Gaza Strip said on Friday. Israeli authorities rejected several scheduled deliveries to replenish medicine and supplies in Gaza City, the UN office said. Other convoys, meant to deliver food, drinking water and other vital supplies as well as medicines, failed to pass. They were held up for too long at Israeli checkpoints or because agreed routes could not be utilized. According to OCHA, th…