The United Nations named an outgoing Dutch minister as its humanitarian coordinator for Gaza on Tuesday following last week’s watered-down Security Council resolution, which called for aid to be delivered to the Strip “at scale.”

Sigrid Kaag’s appointment comes as the people of Gaza face a dire humanitarian emergency, with aid slowed to a trickle during the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas terror group in the densely populated coastal enclave.

In a statement introducing Kaag, the UN said that beginning January 8, she will “facilitate, coordinate, monitor, and verify humanitarian relief consignments to Gaza.”

“She will also establish a United Nations mechanism to accelerate humanitarian relief consignments to Gaza through States which are not party to the conflict,” the statement added.

War broke out between Israel and Hamas after the terror group’s October 7 massacres, which saw some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border, killing approximately 1,200 people and seizing more than 240 hostages of all ages — mostly civilians — amid horrific acts of brutality.

In response, Israel launched a wide-scale military campaign in Gaza, which the Hamas-run health ministry says has killed over 20,000 people, mainly civilians. Those figures cannot be independently verified and include both civilians and Hamas combatants.

Last week’s UN Security Council resolution called for the “safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale” — but stopped short of calling for an immediate end to fighting.

The Security Council adopted the resolution on Gaza on Friday after days of delays and diplomatic wrangling. A draft version of the resolution had said that the aid mechanism to accelerate the delivery of relief would be “exclusively” under UN control. But the final version, passed after Washington abstained, now states it would be managed in consultation with “all relevant parties” — meaning Israel would retain operational oversight of aid deliveries.

Last week, President Isaac Herzog charged that the UN has been failing to keep up with the amount of aid Israel is inspecting, and that the world body is to blame for the little amount of aid entering the Strip even after Israel opened its Kerem Shalom crossing to ease the bottleneck.

Israel has said that it has been inspecting hundreds of trucks per day at its Kerem Shalom and Nitzana crossings and that many of the trucks subsequently remain outside Gaza. The UN and Egypt have argued that Israel’s military campaign has made it too dangerous to regularly deliver aid inside and through Gaza.

Kaag most recently served as the Netherlands’ deputy prime minister and finance minister. She has previously held a number of senior UN jobs including its special coordinator for Lebanon and the Joint Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations Mission in Syria.

Jacob Magid contributed to this report.