Situation in Gaza Strip ‘terrifying’: UN
- December 26, 2023
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The Executive Director of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Spain, Raquel Marti, assured that The situation in the Gaza Strip is
The Executive Director of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Spain, Raquel Marti, assured that The situation in the Gaza Strip is “terrifying”.
Marty emphasized that more funding is needed to serve populations where chundreds of thousands of people are forced to survive without humanitarian aidsince Israel only allows 10% of what is needed, and not in all areas.
He said a strong political response from governments is needed to end this “bloody military offensive” and establish a ceasefire that will allow the population to be safely served as “142 UNRWA colleagues have died” in this conflict. .
Violations of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip
He emphasized that Violations of international humanitarian law are experienced first-hand every day.Starting with a strict blockade of the Gaza Strip, preventing the flow of humanitarian aid, bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure, as well as forced displacement of the population.
“The situation is terrifying. “Never in a conflict have there been more than 20,700 confirmed casualties in such a short period of time, 70% of them children and women, 8,000 missing under the rubble and more than 53,000 injured, many of them child amputees . “, he emphasized.
An absolutely desperate population
With only a third of Gaza’s hospitals operating, there is no medicine, water or fuel, and the population is in absolute despair, who, he said, “are even attacking aid trucks to take away boxes that are being eaten on the same street.” which indicates a famine is occurring.”
With 1.9 million displaced people, of whom 1.45 have taken refuge in humanitarian facilities, Marty criticized Israel for continuing to fail to meet the needs of the population and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to survive without humanitarian assistance.
More than 240 deaths in recent hours bring the death toll in Gaza to nearly 21,000.
At least 241 people have been killed and 382 injured in Israeli army attacks in Gaza over the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israeli military offensive to nearly 21,000 and the number of injuries to nearly 55,000.
There have been “18 massacres of entire families” in Israeli attacks in the coastal enclave in the past 24 hours, the health ministry in the Palestinian sector, which is controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, said on Tuesday.
Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra condemned the Israeli attacks near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza in a statement.
Al-Qudra warned that the health center could see a repeat of what has happened at other hospitals in the strip, such as Al-Shifa in the north, the largest in the Gaza Strip, which has been forced to suspend its services or is barely able to provide them due to the attacks .
After 81 days of war, the ministry estimates the death toll has reached 20,915 and 54,918 injured, although the bodies of more than 7,000 Gazans are estimated to remain under the rubble from Israeli bombing.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported Israeli air and artillery attacks on several areas of the strip, including a house in Khan Yunis, which killed ten people. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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