The Palestinians of Gaza are about to be famine and are desperate for help.
But, despite Israel, he officially went up and declaring publicly that this will now allow trucks to enter Gaza after a blockade of more than two months, only five aid trucks have in fact entered the territory on Tuesday evening.
And, even with these trucks inside Gaza, the humanitarian workers were prevented from distributing aid inside them, according to the spokesperson for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jens Laerke.
The population of the Gaza Strip, more than two million people before the War of Israel against Gaza, is on the brink of famine, said many aid agencies, with up to 14,000 babies at risk of dying of malnutrition if the aid does not reach them. Despite the immense humanitarian cost, the headquarters of Israel continues. Israel says that 93 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday, but even if it was true and the help distributed, it still represents around 20% of the daily needs of the territory.
To what extent is the Gaza humanitarian crisis desperate?
After 11 weeks of relentless siege, the situation in Gaza is declared desperate by many agencies.
Half a million people, or one in five Palestinians, face famine. The rest of the population is, according to the integrated classification of the food security phase (IPC), suffering from high levels of acute food insecurity.
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“The risk of famine in the Gaza Strip is not only possible – it is more and more likely,” said the IPC, warning that an official famine could be declared accordingly Israeli action at any time by September.
Officially, a famine occurs when at least 20% (a fifth) of households face extreme food shortages; More than 30% of children suffer from acute malnutrition; And at least two children out of 10,000 or four in 10,000 children die every day of famine or hunger causes.
The term famine refers to more than hunger. It refers to one of the worst possible humanitarian emergencies, indicating a complete collapse of access to food, water and systems necessary to support life.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported last week that at least 57 children died of the effects of malnutrition since the full start of Israel on March 2.
How did the international community react to the Israeli headquarters?
The emergency coordinator in Gaza for doctors Without borders – known by his French initials, MSF – Pascale Coissard, described Gaza aid as “ridiculously inadequate”. The organization said that Israel only allowed food and medicine in Gaza as “a smoke screen to claim that the seat is finished”.
“The decision of the Israeli authorities to allow ridiculously inadequate aid to Gaza after months of waterproof air siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving in Gaza, while keeping them barely surviving,” said Coissard.
Israel faces intense international pressure to lift its seat on Gaza. Twenty-three countries, including many traditional allies in Israel, have condemned the action of Israel to Gaza, the United Kingdom, France and Canada threatening sanctions if help is not allowed to reach people trapped in the enclave.
Even the United States, generally the ally closest to Israel, admitted that aid does not enter into “sufficient amounts” to avoid the threat of famine.
Has Israel released his attacks on Gaza?
Not particularly.
Hundreds of Palestinians were killed in blind Israeli attacks during the last week, passing the overall death number to more than 53,500.
Among these, more than 3,500 have been killed since the Israeli government decided to unilaterally break a cease-fire on March 18 and resume its offensive on the Gaza Strip.
On Sunday, the Israeli army confirmed that it had widened the ground operations in the north and southern sections of the Gaza Strip as part of what it said to be an intensified campaign to obtain the concessions of Hamas which had escaped it through nineteen months of intense war, the destruction of almost all the buildings of Gaza and tens of thousands of civilians, women and children in the majority.
Despite the humanitarian cost, the decision to authorize what criticisms say is a performative and insufficient quantity of food and medicine in Gaza has proven controversial in Israel.
The ultra-nationalist minister of Israel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, condemned the decision to authorize the small aid to Gaza, calling it “a serious and serious error”.
However, the Ben-Gvir traveler’s colleague on the hard right, the Minister of Finance, Beezalel Smotrich, defended the decision, affirming in a television declaration that Israel would allow the “minimum necessary”, therefore “the world does not prevent us and would accuse us of war crimes”.