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The United Nations has warned against Israel’s use of aid in Gaza as a “taste” in order to force the Palestinians to be displaced from their areas, especially from the northern Gaza Strip to its south, confirming that there is no “failure” to distribute it, while the prices of basic commodities recorded heights described as imagination.
This came in statements reported by the UNRWA officials, in order to comment on the Israeli plan to distribute aid in Gaza.
UNICEF
A statement issued by the United Nations Children’s Organization (UNICEF) said that its spokesman, James Elder, made it clear that an accurate analysis of the plan presented by Israel to the human community, concluded that it would likely exacerbate the suffering of children and families in the Gaza Strip.
Elder stressed that the plan violates the basic humanitarian principles, including the use of facial recognition technology as a pre -condition for aid.
He expressed concern about the use of this technology, stressing that examining the beneficiaries and monitoring them for intelligence and military purposes violates all humanitarian principles.
Besides, the plan also deprives the weakest groups that cannot reach the proposed military areas, from aid, while their families are exposed to the risk of targeting or falling into the fire during their move between these areas, he said.
He continued by saying that the use of humanitarian aid as a taste to force the population to displace, especially from north to south, will create an impossible option between displacement and death.
He explained that the plan submitted also includes the entry of only 60 trucks to the sector on a daily basis, which represents the ten number that was arrived during the ceasefire.
He described what is happening in Gaza as a “deep moral breakdown”, where everything necessary to survive the child is banned, while the only thing that enters the sector now is bombs.
In response to Israeli allegations regarding the “control of Hamas” on aid, Elir asked about the fate of the incubators designated for premature children, noting that the difficult circumstances in Gaza cause the early births increasing, and that there are dozens of incubators stuck on the other side of the border pending allowing them to enter.
He explained that the aid that is prohibited from entering includes vaccines, oxygen cylinders and school books, adding that the depth in the list of prohibited materials under comprehensive excuses to transfer the aid path reveals the size of the real reality on the ground.
UNRWA
In turn, Juliet Toma, UNRWA, director of media and communication, said that the agency managed the aid it brought to the Gaza Strip itself.
She indicated, according to the statement, that the aid was not subjected to any transfer on its original goals.
She emphasized that the UN agency succeeded in delivering aid to the residents of Gaza, stressing the existence of an effective humanitarian system that can be resumed if the political will is available.
She pointed out that more than 10,000 employees are working to deliver the remaining supplies and manage the shelters of displaced families, including the “Abu Hamisa” school, which was bombed earlier this week, in which the occupation killed 30 people, including children.
Toma noted that UNRWA has started investigations into reports claiming to “convert aid”, pointing out that it was difficult to refute because the international media prevents the coverage of events independently.
Toma said that more than 3,000 UNRWA trucks loaded with aid are still stuck outside Gaza, noting that food and medicines are threatened with damage instead of reaching children and patients.
It demanded that the crossings should be opened and the siege was removed from the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.
Global Health
For her part, World Health Organization spokeswoman Margaret Harris confirmed that the health system in Gaza has not witnessed any cases of transferring aid from its destination.
It stated that the organization’s supplies reach the health facilities that were aimed at serving it.
On the aid crisis in Gaza, Harris said that it is not a matter of failure to deliver it, but rather by preventing it from entering it.
She added that medical supplies and medicines are running out quickly with the increasing need, in light of the deteriorating living conditions and the continued bombing of the Gaza Strip.
She pointed out that more than 10 thousand and 500 patients in Gaza need an urgent medical evacuation, including 4 thousand children, yet only 122 patients have been evacuated since the extermination resumed on March 18.
Full siege
Meanwhile, the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that the Gaza Strip is under a complete siege for the third month in a row.
He added that 70% of the population of the Gaza Strip is in military areas or under orders of displacement or both.
The UN office stated that people in Gaza are dying, and that it is ready to intensify aid as soon as the siege was lifted.
“Crazy Prices”
Amid a suffocating siege imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip, basic commodity prices recorded unprecedented levels described as imagination.
Gazi citizen says that a kilo of potatoes reached 10.80 dollars, and onions are the same, while a kilo of tomatoes are sold at 7.30 dollars, and the eggplant at 8.10 dollars, while the flour reached 9.45 dollars.
He added that the flour bag (50 kilograms) reached 400 dollars, and this is equivalent to a month’s salary for a whole family, but more than that for the majority.
And he confirms that the prices are no longer shocking to the poor only, but even the affluent families are no longer able to buy, stressing that most citizens live on the crumbs of what remains they have or what they can exchange, if available.
As for the fuel, the price of one liter reached 27 dollars, forcing the residents to abandon cars and resort to bicycles and animals that animals are drawn to spend their needs.
A Palestinian asserts that the sector is close to famine, noting that the food stock is sufficient only for days, while children and the elderly face slow slow death.
He points out that his family did not taste vegetables for more than a week, and that their daily meals are limited to mixing the remains of rice with small quantities of flour that is not good for human consumption.
He adds that some of the flour bags emit the smell of mold, but they are forced to use it and mix it with rice or pasta in an attempt to satisfy the stomachs of children, and most importantly, they sleep without crying from hunger.
On Wednesday, the International Central Cumer Organization, which provides meals to the residents of Gaza since the beginning of the genocide, has announced that it is no longer able to cook new meals due to the depletion of food supplies and fuel shipments needed to cook meals or prepare bread as a result of the Israeli siege.
The Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa, the Gaza Strip, also announced a “famine area”, due to the Israeli siege and the ongoing genocide.
Israel continues a widespread genocide against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023, including killing, destruction, starvation and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and the orders of the International Court of Justice to stop them.
This Israeli war -which is supported by the United States -left more than 172,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.