Authorities Gaza Stripcontrolled Islamic resistance movement (Hamas) warned this Friday about “increased hungerin the enclave due to the Israeli military offensive and obstacles to the delivery of aid and fuel, which he blamed on the Israeli and American authorities.”imminent humanitarian disaster“.

“We warn about the strengthening food crisisfrom water and from medicines and from increased hunger and thirst for the fact that the Israeli occupation and the US administration are preventing the flow of aid and fuel to Gaza,” the press service of the Gaza authorities said.

Thus, in a statement published on his Telegram account, he emphasized that “the Israeli occupation army continues closure of all crossings leading to Gaza for 24 days” with “full support” Washingtonwhich “increases the likelihood of famine in a sector affected by genocidal war.”

So he remembered that they had already passed more than three weeks since the Israeli army took control of the Palestinian side of the crossing Rafaon the border with Egypt, suspending military operations in this area, which led to the closure of the crossing Kerem Shalom has caused a “complex humanitarian crisis that is preventing 22,000 wounded And sick travel outside Gaza for treatment.”

“This This also prevents the flow of humanitarian aid and food. on the Strip, where some live 2.4 million of people, including two million displaced persons who depend on humanitarian aid“He emphasized before adding that “about a quarter of a million heads of households lost their jobs due to the genocidal war.”

In this sense, he insisted that “the Israeli occupation prevents fuel from entering, gas kitchen and medicines as part of its policy of pressure on the civilian population,” which “is crime against humanity“, before clarifying that fuel shortages “increase the likelihood of increased hunger and thirst among the civilian population, especially children and women.”

“The moral and humanitarian image of the United States administration and the Israeli occupation has been undermined hunger disastermurder, genocide and the systematic destruction of residential areas, infrastructure, water pipes, garbage and electricity networks, as well as all sectors and aspects of life in the Gaza Strip,” he said.

At the same time, he emphasized that the situation “has clearly become planned by the occupation and the Americans“, and also condemned the recent attacks on camps for displaced persons. “We ask all countries of the free world condemn these crimes against humanity And genocidal war against the defenseless Palestinian people,” he added.

So he asked International Criminal Court (ITC) and other international judicial bodies that “try Israeli and American war criminals” for ” unprecedented historical Holocaustand that they impose “the severest punishments for these heinous crimes.”

The Gaza authorities’ press office also repeated its call for The international community will put pressure on Israel For opening of border crossings with the Gaza Strip and warned that “the reality in the Gaza Strip is close to spinning out of control, leading to unprecedented humanitarian disaster“.

Deir el-Balah anti-malnutrition program

For its part, the non-governmental organization Action against hunger (ACH) announced this Friday the activation in Deir el Bala (in the center) a malnutrition prevention program among children under five years of age, pregnant women and nursing mothers with infants under six months.

Thus, the organization emphasized that more than half a million children and mothers need nutrition assistance and that Half of the Strip’s population is starving or on the verge of starvation. due to the serious humanitarian crisis caused by the Israeli offensive launched following the October 7 attacks by Hamas.

“In clinics we see malnourished boys and girls, especially children under two years of age. We see how lack of food affects their development: they don’t grow within average size what they should have for their age and, internally, vital organs for example, heart, kidneys or lungs they are weakened; “They have weakened immune systems and suffer more from infections,” explained the nutrition and health coordinator for the Hunger Emergency Team.

“Besides, these are the boys and girls who have not received any vaccine over the past seven months and who are living in very difficult conditions. They do not have access to decent healthcare infrastructure. We admit them sick, especially with a cough and possible pneumonia, and when we treat them in clinics, we find that suffer from malnutrition added.

For this reason, the NGO activated program in which distributes nutritional supplements based on lipids aimed at reducing the incidence of acute malnutrition in children over six months of age to support more 13,000 vulnerable people.