Gaza is plunging deeper right into a starvation disaster, 50 days after Israel imposed a complete blockade stopping all support from getting into the devastated enclave, the U.N. warned Tuesday.
“Gaza has become a land of desperation,” Philippe Lazzarini, head of the U.N. company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), mentioned on X.
“Hunger is spreading and deepening, deliberate and manmade.”
After 18 months of Israel’s genocidal conflict and an support blockade since March 2, the U.N. has warned of a dire humanitarian state of affairs for the two.4 million inhabitants of the Palestinian territory.
Israel has accused the Palestinian resistance group Hamas of diverting support, which it denies.
The heads of 12 main support organizations warned final Thursday that “famine is not just a risk, but likely rapidly unfolding in almost all parts” of the territory.
“You can see a clear tendency toward total disaster,” Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N. humanitarian company OCHA instructed reporters in Geneva Tuesday.
“It is true that right now is probably the worst humanitarian situation we have seen throughout the war in Gaza.”
In his publish on X, Lazzarini questioned “how much longer until hollow words of condemnation will translate into action to lift the siege, resume a cease-fire and save whatever is left of humanity?”
The UNRWA chief decried that 2 million individuals in Gaza, most of them ladies and kids, “are undergoing collective punishment.”
“The wounded, sick and elderly are deprived of medical supplies and care,” he mentioned, whilst humanitarian organizations like UNRWA have hundreds of vehicles ready with provides that threat expiring.
“Humanitarian aid is being used as a bargaining chip and a weapon of war,” he charged.
“The siege must be lifted, supplies must flow in, the hostages must be released, the ceasefire must resume.”
Source: www.dailysabah.com