Human rights and international organizations have warned of the worsening humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, due to the closure of the crossings and the shortage of fuel, medical supplies, and food throughout the Strip, especially in the city of Rafah, south of Gaza.
Human Rights Watch said that the Gaza Strip has no safe place for people to go, and called on the international community to take action to prevent further atrocities.
In turn, Doctors Without Borders said that the situation in the city of Rafah is critical and vital supplies are running dangerously low, especially medical supplies that are about to run out.
The organization said that the fuel shortage is affecting generators and the distribution of clean water.
The United Nations also renewed its condemnation of the attacks targeting its employees in Gaza, and called for a full investigation into the killing of a driver working for the United Nations World Health Organization – yesterday, Monday – and the injury of a Jordanian employee working for the organization, as the Israeli occupation army targeted a car belonging to the organization east of the city of Rafah. .
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, expressed his deep sadness over the targeting of UN employees. Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the United Nations, said in a press conference that the Secretary-General was deeply saddened when he learned of the killing of an employee of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security and the injury of another employee. Israeli targeting of their UN vehicle.
Massive displacement
In the same context, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that families in Rafah moved this morning as far west as possible, and reached the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
The organization confirmed that the interior areas of Rafah have now turned into a ghost town, and said that it is difficult to believe that more than a million people were in the city.
The Israeli occupation army has continued its ground invasion of the city of Rafah for about a week, and despite many warnings of the humanitarian catastrophe that will result from targeting the city, which is crowded with hundreds of thousands of displaced people, American officials said that Israel has mobilized enough forces to launch a large operation in Rafah.
American officials confirmed that Israel had not made the necessary preparations to ensure the safety of civilians in Rafah.
The Israeli war on Gaza since October 7 has left about 114,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of many children and the elderly.
