The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned of the repercussions of hunger in the Gaza Strip reaching critical levels, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
UNRWA said in a tweet on the X website: The hunger is in Gaza Strip It has reached critical levels, with people searching for food scraps in weeks-old garbage.
She stressed that the conditions are deteriorating rapidly with the onset of winter, and the survival of the people becomes impossible without urgent humanitarian aid.
UNRWA accompanied its statement with pictures showing the huge volume of waste in a street in the Strip, without giving details.
Hunger arrived #Gaza To critical levels, as people search for food scraps in weeks-old waste.
As winter sets in, conditions deteriorate rapidly, and survival becomes impossible without urgent humanitarian aid.
He should #ceasefire now pic.twitter.com/H6KjDqII5k– UNRWA (@UNRWAarabic) November 27, 2024
A few days ago, UNRWA warned that more than two million displaced people in Gaza are besieged by hunger, thirst and disease, and said that obtaining meals has become an impossible task for families in the Strip.
UNRWA confirmed that the flour and foodstuffs that the Israeli occupation allows to enter through the crossings do not meet 6% of the needs of the population in the Gaza Strip.
She spoke about a severe crisis in the Gaza Strip due to the siege imposed by the occupation forces, which caused great difficulties in obtaining bread, after most bakeries in the south of the Gaza Strip were closed.
UNRWA indicated that the conditions of the displaced in displacement tents and shelter centers are tragic, in light of hunger and cold, and the inability of international organizations to meet the needs of the displaced, due to the scarcity of food and nutrition.
It called for the complete opening of the crossings and the entry of what the population needs to reduce the famine that has exacerbated cases of malnutrition and various diseases in the Gaza Strip.
Starving Gaza
The Palestinians in Gaza are suffering from a systematic policy of starvation due to a scarcity of foodstuffs due to the Israeli occupation army’s obstruction of the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip, according to confirmations from numerous UN and international institutions.
The international community is calling on Israel to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza to prevent famine, but to no avail.
Famine has spread in most areas of the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli siege, especially in northern Gaza following the continued extermination and starvation, while all areas of the Gaza Strip are experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, coinciding with the advent of winter for the second year in a row, with about two million displaced Palestinians, most of whom are sleeping in tents.
With American support, since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a war on the Gaza Strip that has left more than 146,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded – most of them children and women – and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst disasters. Humanity in the world.
Israel continues its massacres, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to end them 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 Gaza.