Destruction in A loop the entire population left no means of livelihood in a situation never before seen in the Palestinian enclave, with its entire society on the brink of collapse, he warned on Tuesday Action against hunger.

The non-governmental organization shared the testimonies of several of its members in Madrid after returning from the Gaza Strip, where dead exceed 36,500 And almost 83,000 woundedMost of them are women and children since Israel launched a military offensive following an October 7 attack by the Islamist group Hamas.

The war “left the entire population without means of subsistence and without access to basic services“, he said Cristina IzquierdoNutrition Coordinator for the Emergency Hunger Action Team, which visited the Gaza Strip.

The humanitarian crisis is raising concerns that in many areas hunger I arrived at extreme levelsmore than 30 percent of the population, but the inability to access various parts of the sector prevents a more accurate understanding of this drama.

Humanitarian aid “must come immediately and widely to prevent large scale mortality“, otherwise ” collapse of society “It could happen,” said an aid worker.

Izquierdo described the deterioration of a man who does not receive minimal feedingWith irreversible consequences for the rest of their lives, especially in children whose development is difficult.

“Muscles, skin, hair, nails. “The emaciation that we see in people,” he said, is why Action Against Hunger’s main goal is to get food to the populations most at risk.

“We’ve never been in this situation before,” he lamented.

His partner Fenia DiamantiAction Against Hunger’s emergency project coordinator, who had just returned from the Gaza Strip, described how “the Gaza Strip has the easiest now it’s very difficult“.

“There is nothing in Gaza“, and those who manage to gain access to the coastal enclave have to be transported from food And hygiene products to electronic equipment such as a cell phone charger, he said.

Cloth for children, shoes, medicinessince there is not even a “simple pain reliever”, everything “has to be brought from outside” and it may take weeks before this help can come through the passage Kerem Shalom– he assured.

Diamanti added that the Gaza Strip is very difficult to store and distribute aid, no fuel and the roads are destroyed.

One day, when he managed to return to the north of Gaza, which was impossible for many Gazans, to where his home was, he saw children, making up about half of the population of just over two million people, who “they are outside and they should look for life“.