The World Food Program revealed that the hunger crisis is worsening throughout the Gaza Strip, stressing that the prices of basic foodstuffs have risen by more than 1,000% compared to levels before the Israeli war on Gaza.
This came in a statement highlighting the hunger crisis and the danger of continuing war and the Israeli siege on the Palestinians throughout Gaza, especially its north, which the United Nations published on its website on Friday evening.
In turn, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said, “The ongoing military operation in northern Gaza has led to the displacement of 130,000 people over the past seven weeks.”
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also warned that the ongoing hostilities across the Strip continue to expose Palestinians to grave danger, especially civilians who are trying to survive under the Israeli siege in the North Gaza Governorate, according to the same statement.
According to the latest update by OCHA, issued on Friday, in northern Gaza, including Gaza City, a severe shortage of cooking gas has forced families to rely on burning waste as fuel, which increases the risk of respiratory infections, at a time when services have become less common. Health care is very limited.
Winter crises
OCHA quoted humanitarian partners as reporting that there is an acute shortage of suitable shelter for hundreds of thousands of people displaced due to the hostilities throughout Gaza.
Only less than a quarter of the Strip’s shelter needs have been met, leaving nearly a million people at risk of extreme conditions as winter approaches.
The office explained that about 545,000 people live in damaged buildings and temporary shelters, which underscores the urgent need to ensure that thousands of sets of tarpaulins and insulation to repair living spaces enter the Strip without delay.
In the south, the rains that flooded shelters along the beach in the town of Al-Qarara led to the displacement of hundreds of families to Hamad Town in the Khan Yunis Governorate, south of the Gaza Strip, over the past six days, according to the same source.
On the fifth of last October, the Israeli occupation army began a ground invasion of northern Gaza 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.
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.
