Super critical situation in northern Gaza / warning about the death of half a million people due to hunger
| With the interruption of humanitarian aid to the north of the Gaza Strip, which was in a dire situation since the beginning of the war, many warnings have been raised about the catastrophic situation in this area and the death of half a million people due to hunger and thirst. |
According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, referring to the critical situation The entire Gaza Strip announced that the conditions in the north of this area are extremely critical and catastrophic, and we are facing a severe shortage of fuel and medicine in the hospitals.
The electricity in the refrigerators is out of order and the small amount of medicine left in the refrigerators is getting spoiled. Dozens of ambulances and civil defense teams and medical and medical services have been disabled as a result of the lack of fuel, and dialysis patients and patients in the intensive care unit are facing the inevitable risk of death.
The death of another child due to hunger and thirst
On the other hand, Al-Mayadin reporter reported the martyrdom of a wounded child named “Mohammed Nasrallah” in the hospital. Al-Shifa reported because of thirst and hunger and lack of access to medicine.
The spokesman of the Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip also said that the situation in the north of this area is catastrophic and the occupiers prevent the entry of essential facilities for the people. The occupying forces deliberately target the personnel of the civil defense teams, and we have never faced this amount of suffering in any war.
Half A million people in northern Gaza are at risk of death due to hunger and thirst
On the other hand, human rights organizations in Palestine warned in a joint report that half a million Palestinians in northern Gaza in They are at serious risk of death due to hunger and thirst, and for several weeks, aid to this area has been completely cut off, and due to the severe restrictions imposed by the occupiers and the war that has been going on for the past 5 months, all food and medicine Especially flour has become rare in the north of Gaza.
These human rights organizations emphasized that the continuation of the policies of the occupiers to collectively punish the residents of the Gaza Strip with hunger and thirst, in the framework of completing the goals of this regime to displace the residents of the north and under It is pressuring them to give up their lands. These crimes of the Zionist regime are a clear violation of the initial decisions of the International Court of Justice, according to which Israel must comply with the law prohibiting genocide.
On the other hand, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees Palestine (UNRWA) reported that the last time the agency was able to send aid to northern Gaza was on January 23. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, about one million people under the age of 18 live in the Gaza Strip. that almost all of them face the risk of acute malnutrition; Especially after the reduction of humanitarian aid in recent weeks and the cutoff of aid to northern Gaza. Sources affiliated with the Gaza Ministry of Health reported that in the past two months, 8 children under the age of 5 died in the Gaza Strip due to malnutrition. They lost their lives during the war. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) also announced that the situation in Gaza is very dangerous for children and the conditions that the people of Gaza have been experiencing since the beginning of the war are unprecedented in the whole world. They warned and announced that the Gaza Strip is witnessing a severe lack of food for children and in this situation where mothers do not have the strength to breastfeed their babies due to malnutrition, dry milk is also extremely scarce and this crisis is not only related to the north but throughout Gaza is suffering from this disaster.
Following the spread of hunger and famine throughout Gaza, which has worsened with the suspension of World Food Program aid to the north of this region, 4 organizations affiliated to the United Nations, including the organization The World Health Organization, Oxfam, UNICEF and the World Food Program announced that Gaza has become a region of death and hunger due to Israel’s continuous aggression since October 7.
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