World Food Program: 97% of the refugees in Gaza do not have enough food to eat
An international organization warned about the famine in the Gaza Strip and the great hunger crisis in this region due to the escalation and continuation of the aggression of the Zionist regime and announced that 83 to 97 percent of the displaced people in Gaza do not find enough food to eat. |
According to Webangah News quoted by Tasnim News agency, while In the shadow of the aggression of the occupying regime against civilians in Gaza, the humanitarian crisis in this region is getting wider day by day. The World Food Program warned about famine in Gaza and announced that hunger has spread throughout Gaza and people cannot find any food to eat. .
The organization emphasized in its statement that as a result of the intense war waged by Israel against the civilians of Gaza, between 83 and 97 percent of the displaced people in the Gaza Strip do not have enough food to survive. They do not find food. In some areas, about 90% of families cannot find even one meal during the day and night, and during the last month, 18% of the displaced were hungry for more than 10 days and had no food to eat.
On the other hand, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that hospitals also have very unfavorable conditions and most of them are unable to accept new patients. Only 14 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are now operational, and they have limited services.
Earlier, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Watch announced that Israel has terribly intensified the “war of hunger” against the people of Gaza and seeks to worsen the living conditions of the people of Gaza, reaching the level A disaster has arrived. Israel wants to use starvation as a tool to subdue the people of Gaza.
The organization warned that Israel will destroy the agricultural area of eastern Gaza, flour warehouses and fishermen’s boats, as well as centers The supplies of aid organizations, especially the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which is the largest source of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, have been destroyed, and there is great concern, especially about the imminent death of children from starvation.
There is also a staggering number of severely malnourished children in the Gaza Strip who need urgent medical care. Before the start of these Israeli attacks on Gaza, in the shadow of the heavy siege against Gaza, 70% of the children in this region suffered from weak immune system and anemia, and after the start of the Israeli attacks and its consequences, 90% of the children in the Gaza Strip suffered from severe weakness. immune system and acute anemia.
Publisher | Tasnim News |