The people of Gaza welcome Eid al-Fitr with empty stomachs

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, while it was expected as the days of Eid-ul-Fitr approached The flow of aid to the Gaza Strip will increase, but the crisis of famine and hunger is still rampant throughout this region. >

The World Food Program affiliated to the United Nations announced in this context that after half a year of continuous Israeli war against the Gaza Strip, there are many warnings about widespread hunger in the besieged Gaza Strip. and in the meantime, the northern region of Gaza is separated from other regions and is on the verge of a real famine.

This international organization announced in a statement that after 6 months of war, everyone in the Gaza Strip is hungry and The danger of famine in northern Gaza is closer than ever. We need the aid and relief teams to enter Gaza and their free and safe movement to help the people in this area, and the task here is clear: either aid or famine.

Other international agencies and institutions Human rights organizations also warned again about the real danger of famine in Gaza. In this regard, UNRWA Commissioner General Philip Lazzarini announced that no one in Gaza is safe from the risk of famine and this situation requires more aid to enter this region. On the other hand, Jimmy McGoldrick The United Nations Humanitarian Aid Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territories said in his turn: While half a year has passed since Israel’s ongoing war against Gaza, the humanitarian situation in this area is catastrophic and more than half of the population of Gaza is at risk of famine.

He added that malnutrition among children in Gaza has reached an unprecedented level and Israel should allow humanitarian aid from the international community to enter Gaza unconditionally.

The people of Gaza welcome Eid al-Fitr with an empty stomach

Palestinian citizens in Gaza announced in a conversation with reporters that the aid received in this region is in no way It does not meet the minimum needs of the people, and they are going to welcome Eid al-Fitr this year, when there is no sign of happiness among the Palestinian people. Faiz Abdul Hadi, one of the displaced Palestinian citizens in the city of Deir al-Balah, located in the center of the Strip. Gaza says that we live in an area full of disease and infection and that no sanitary and cleaning materials have reached us. We have been deprived of any cleaning products such as soap, shampoo and other such items for months.

He continued that the food that enters Gaza is not enough at all and we have not received any aid or food packages since two months ago. And yesterday we received a package, which is not even enough for me and my children. He said that he has not received any food aid for about two months and that he and his wife are suffering from osteoporosis and cartilage and have lost a lot of weight. Also, the children do not have food to eat and they have to reduce their meals to two meals a day, which are very small. And one kilo of onions has reached us.

On the other hand, Gaza hospitals are constantly warning about the increase in the number of deaths, especially of children, due to hunger. Wissam al-Sakni, the media officer of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, announced that if food and health aid arrives, many people’s lives can be saved. He said that the lack of food is our biggest problem, and from Other foods that exist are not varied and useful and do not contain nutrients. The medical aid that arrived yesterday is not enough compared to the dire need of the citizens in the shadow of the terrible malnutrition in northern Gaza. Here we have babies who have not gained any weight after a few months of their birth due to mothers’ malnutrition and lack of formula.

“Catherine Russell”, the executive director of UNICEF, said in an interview with the American CBS network that This level of death and destruction, which we have seen in Gaza over the past few months, has never happened in any other conflict anywhere in the world. Many children in Gaza are suffering from severe anemia and acute malnutrition, and they don’t even have the energy to cry anymore. This is while there are many challenges against the arrival of aid convoys to Gaza.

The United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs also warned that time is running out and obstacles to access aid in the Gaza Strip continue. .

The statement of this office emphasized that more than 1.1 million people in Gaza are facing a severe level of food insecurity and there is no alternative to send ground aid to Gaza with the aim of saving the lives of the people of this region, especially in the north. which is facing a dire crisis, does not exist.

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