Othman Muqbil, Executive Director of the British-based Action for Humanity Foundation, said, “All relief institutions, whether international or local, feel helpless due to their inability during the past two weeks to send humanitarian aid to the northern Gaza Strip, in light of the stifling Israeli siege and the policy of starving civilians.”
He added, since the start of the Israeli military operation on Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, the conditions have worsened to a degree that has not happened since the beginning of the war on Gaza. “No kind of aid has reached our people in Jabalia and the surrounding areas for 15 days.”
He added, “Of course, we heard 4 or 5 days ago that the occupation allowed some aid to enter northern Gaza, but according to our information as we who work in the humanitarian sector, nothing has reached our people in the north, and we hear from those who work with us there and from people that these days are among the most difficult days in the world.” “I passed by them, and this morning I heard from some of them that they started writing their wills.”
Muqbil stressed that the relief and medical workers in northern Gaza are working in dangerous and extremely complex conditions. They now cannot find food or drink for themselves, and of course there are no possibilities to provide any assistance to the citizens, stressing that the martyrdom of the coordinator of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees The Palestinians (UNRWA) in Jabalia are proof of this.
Although some appeals were issued by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, and other UN officials to save northern Gaza, these voices, as Muqbel believes, do not amount to the genocide and starvation of people taking place in the northern Gaza Strip.
He added, “We need real action and clear voices that put pressure on the UN Security Council so that it puts pressure on the occupation and forces it to stop the siege, open the door to humanitarian aid, and stop these massacres that are taking place against northern Gaza and of course in all of Gaza.”
He pointed out that the amount of aid entering the Gaza Strip in general is small and does not meet the needs of even 20% of the population, calling on the international community to put pressure on the occupation to allow aid to enter.
With American support, Israel has been waging a war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, which has left more than 142,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world. .
Israel continues this war in full view of the whole world, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to end it immediately, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip.