The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that survival conditions are dwindling for some 65,000 to 75,000 people estimated to remain in northern Gaza.
UNRWA said in a tweet on the X website, “Of the 91 attempts made by the United Nations to deliver aid to the besieged northern Gaza from October 6 to November 25, Israel refused to approve 82 attempts and obstructed 9 others.”
Yesterday, Wednesday, UNRWA confirmed that hunger in the Gaza Strip has reached critical levels, as people search for leftover food in weeks-old waste.
She added that the situation is deteriorating rapidly with the onset of winter, and the survival of the people becomes impossible without urgent humanitarian aid, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
In turn, Gaza Civil Defense spokesman, Major Mahmoud Basal, said that the Israeli occupation army prevents the entry of humanitarian aid, ambulance and civil defense equipment into northern Gaza.
Basal added to Tel Aviv Tribune that the rain and water collected in the ponds pose a real disaster threat to the residents.
On the fifth of last October, the occupation army began a ground invasion of the northern Gaza Strip under the pretext of “preventing the Hamas movement from regaining its power in the region,” while the Palestinians say that Israel wants to occupy the northern Gaza Strip and turn it into a buffer zone after displacing its residents.
Starving Gaza
The Palestinians in Gaza are suffering from a systematic policy of starvation due to a scarcity of food supplies due to the 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 the Gaza Strip 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.