Israeli restrictions hampered aid delivery to Gaza

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced that since the beginning of the new year, Israeli regime authorities have imposed severe restrictions on the entry of aid teams and humanitarian aid into Gaza, amid warnings of impending famine in Gaza.

The United Nations agency announced yesterday, Monday, that from the beginning of 2024, only seven shipments out of 29 shipments of food, medicine, water and other The supplies that were planned by the United Nations to be delivered to Gaza have been delivered by yesterday.

The agency added: The situation is significantly worse compared to December 2023, when more than 70% of the planned cases were successfully implemented in northern Gaza.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs stated that this situation is crippling the ability of humanitarian partners to provide targeted and coordinated assistance on a larger scale to the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian citizens who remain in northern Gaza.

He added that the restrictions imposed on relief teams and their refusal to accept them have affected the access of these teams to the cities of Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis in the center and south of Gaza.

The Ministry of Health of Gaza also issued a statement on the 100th day of the Gaza war and announced that the health infrastructure in the Rafah region is very fragile and cannot meet the needs of 1.3 million people. Be from the displaced. In addition, the people of Gaza province and its north need 1,300 food trucks every day to get out of the hunger crisis.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza emphasized in the continuation of its statement that at the same time as the situation of the residents of Gaza is deteriorating At the health and food levels, the occupying regime continues to deliberately kill health personnel and arrest them, and now there are only 6 usable ambulances left in the Gaza Strip.

This ministry stated that we We want the international community and human rights organizations to bring the necessary devices, equipment and medicines into Gaza and bring medical teams from outside the Gaza Strip to help. In addition, there are tens of thousands of wounded, many of whom must be taken out of Gaza for treatment.

On the other hand, the government media office in the Gaza Strip reported that the people of Gaza are in the midst of a severe hunger crisis. are located and the occupiers are focused on creating a famine crisis in Gaza. Currently, nearly 800,000 people in the Gaza and northern provinces are at risk of death due to hunger.

The statement of the state media office in the Gaza Strip states that hunger and thirst are part of the regime’s criminal policy. The occupation has been against the people of Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in this area and the Zionists have targeted all the drinking water wells in Gaza and are trying to destroy all the elements of life in this area. Claiming that the Rafah area is safe, the occupiers encourage the people of Gaza to flee there and then target them and commit terrible crimes against these people.

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Watch He also announced that Israel has terribly intensified the “hunger war” against the people of Gaza and seeks to worsen the living conditions of the people of Gaza, which has reached a catastrophic level. Israel wants to use starvation as a tool to subdue the people of Gaza. “Al-Aqsa Storm” | Israeli army’s all-out attack on the West Bank/ bombing of the north and center of the Gaza Strip

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