children in Gaza die from malnutrition And dehydration“For now, food and drinking water are waiting in trucks” unable to enter Palestinian territory, the head of the Palestinian Authority said on Monday. UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini.

” catastrophic level of hunger All over the Gaza Strip are the result of human actions,” he said at the first face-to-face meeting held by the organization’s Advisory Commission since the outbreak of the Gaza war on October 7.

As other humanitarian organizations said, the person in charge claimed that the breakdown of civil order “led to robbery and even rampant smuggling preventing the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid” while “Gazans cling to life.”

At a two-day meeting starting today at the headquarters United Nations in GenevaLazarini asked not to forget that another tragedy is being experienced in the West Bank, where half a thousand Palestinians died during the same period.

“Daily attacks by Israeli settlers, military incursions and the destruction of homes and critical infrastructure are part of an entrenched system of segregation and oppression,” he condemned.

He also mentioned the intensification of clashes on the border between Israel and Lebanon, where there is a risk of “total war“.

UNRWAregarded as Central pillar of humanitarian aid in Gaza, the West Bank, and among the millions of Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, is in a very delicate financial situation, although its major donors have renewed their contributions.

They were cut out for a while Israeli charges that the body somehow Hamas accomplicewhich was refuted by impartial investigations conducted outside UNRWA.

However, Lazarini argued that the body suffers from an acute lack of resources fulfill its mission and that its ability to operate beyond August next year “will depend on whether the states are able to allocate the planned funds and continue to fund their central budget.”

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It is estimated that UNRWA requires $1.2 billion continue to meet the vital humanitarian needs of civilian victims of this war until the end of the year. Of this amount, he currently owns only 18%.

Its operations in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan received only 20% of what they needed.

EFE