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The Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Gabriece, warned today, Monday, of the danger of starvation in Gaza, considering that “two million people are starving” in the besieged sector in light of the exacerbation of famine caused by the Israeli closure of the crossings for more than two months.
This comes as the government media office in Gaza confirmed that the sector needs 500 urgent relief, medical and food aid trucks and 50 fuel trucks as a minimum savior for life.
“The risk of starvation in Gaza is increasing due to the deliberate ban to enter humanitarian aid,” Adhanum Gabrissus said at the opening of the annual meeting of the member states of the organization in Geneva, while “tons of food stuck at the border just minutes.”
He stressed that “the escalation of hostilities and evacuation orders, reducing the available area of relief operations and preventing aid leads to the flow of victims in the shadow of a healthy, exhausted system.”
He added, “People die from preventive diseases, while drugs are waiting on the borders, and the attacks on hospitals deprive people of care and to discourage them from their request.”
He pointed to the need to evacuate thousands of patients from Gaza to receive treatment, calling on member states to accept more patients and Israel to allow them to leave and allow food and medicine to enter Gaza.
Humanitarian aid
On the other hand, the government media office in Gaza stressed that the sector needs daily 500 relief, medical and food aids and 50 fuel trucks as a minimum.
The office said, in a statement, “In light of the continued genocide, aggression and suffocating Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, indicators of starvation and humanitarian collapse are exacerbated at a terrifying pace, threatening the lives of more than 2.4 million civilian people in the stricken Gaza Strip.”
He continued, “The field facts and accelerated collapse in various sectors show that the minimum required daily to stop this collapse is to enter 500 urgent relief, medical and nutritional aid trucks, along with 50 fuel trucks to operate bakeries, hospitals, water and sewage pumping stations.”
He explained that the sector suffers from “an integrated humanitarian catastrophe as a result of dozens of bakeries stopping work, hospital departments in succession, and depriving the population of the simplest elements of life, of food, water, electricity and medicine.”
He warned against the continued serious humanitarian situation in Gaza due to the Israeli closure, considering the state of delay in moving to save civilians from starvation and slow death “a stigma in the forehead of the world.”
It is noteworthy that the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday, Sunday, that Israel would allow the entry of a “basic amount” of food to Gaza, more than two months after it was prevented from entering any aid to the Strip.
Netanyahu also stressed today that Israel should avoid a famine in Gaza “for diplomatic reasons.”
On the 79th day, Israel continues a systematic starvation policy for about 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza, by closing the crossings in the face of relief and medical aid.
With absolute American support, Israel has committed since October 7, 2023 genocide crimes in Gaza, which left more than 174,000 Palestinians between a martyr and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11 thousand missing, as well as hundreds of thousands of displaced people.